Square brackets are glob characters in file names (they're a regex list indicator). Maybe try disabling file globbing? That disables all of the file expansion characters. "set -f" to turn off, "set +f" to turn back on.
Mike On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 10:17 AM Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > rdimport will successfully import these files using the form rdimport > [options] [GROUP] *.flac > > I can only think that the brackets are being interpreted by the script > in some way and sending bad information to rdimport. > > On 7/9/2021 9:46 PM, Robert Jeffares wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > have you tried rdimport [options] [GROUP] *.flac ? > > > > or is it falling down in the --metadata-pattern='%a - %t.flac' > > > > Are you using CentOS or something else? > > > > Do the flac files have metadata? > > > > From memory [] brackets are not usually a problem > > > > regards > > > > Robert > > > > On 10/07/21 7:03 am, Dave wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I'm about to use rdimport to import a couple of music libraries into > >> Rivendell via a shell script. In testing it works great except for > >> the fact rdimport does not like file names containing an open bracket > >> ([). For example, if I enter the file name using a double quote as > >> "'N Sync - This I Promise You [Radio Edit].flac" it will fail. If I > >> use singles quotes and escape the single quote in the file name it > >> also fails. '\''N Sync - This I Promise You [Radio Edit].flac'. I've > >> tried escaping the bracket to no avail. The only way I can import > >> these files via rdimport is to rename the file without the brackets. > >> I can import files with brackets manually via the rdlibrary GUIwith > >> no problem. Any suggestions? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Dave > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Rivendell-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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