Re: Need help with scripting

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 21:32, Shawn Lamson wrote:
 good job... one question... should it be $@ instead of $@?  ie. what
 if he had spaces in the filenames... you could add a

 mv $file `echo $file | tr   _`
 to turn all spaces in the filename into underscores as the first line
 of the loop to handle that. right before
 base=`basename $file .mp3`


I was not trying to completely solve the problem, just lead down the path.  
Finding the bugs is the fun part (-:


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Re: Need help with scripting

[Jamin W . Collins]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Shawn Lamson
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 good job... one question... should it be $@ instead of $@?  ie. what
 if he had spaces in the filenames... you could add a

Or, you could change the shell internal field seperator via:

  IFS=$'\t\n'

This would temporarily drop space as a seperator.  Then populate the list
of file to work with from an ls command.

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