I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all
one line - sorry if it wraps):
/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny
Loggins - This Is It.mp3
I want to create symbolic links to the top 30 in 1966-1969 in another
directory for easy
Quoth Drew Tomlinson on Tuesday, 17 August 2010:
I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all
one line - sorry if it wraps):
/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny
Loggins - This Is It.mp3
I want to create symbolic links to
On 8/17/2010 7:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format
(all one line - sorry if it wraps):
/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028
Kenny Loggins - This Is It.mp3
I want to create symbolic links to the top 30
On 8/17/2010 8:22 AM, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Drew Tomlinson on Tuesday, 17 August 2010:
I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all
one line - sorry if it wraps):
/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny
Loggins - This Is
Am Dienstag, den 17.08.2010, 08:22 -0700 schrieb Chip Camden:
find -E ... | while read i; do; basename $i; done
The semicolon behind do isn't necessary.
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:47:25 -0700,
Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net said:
D Then I attempt to use 'basename' to extract the file name to a variable
D which I can later pass to 'ln'. This seems to work:
D basename /archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA
D Singles/1980-028
Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net writes:
It finally occurred to me that I needed the shell to see a new line as
the delimiter and not whitespace. Then a simple search revealed my
answer:
O=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en \n\b)
do stuff
IFS=$O
Old IFS value can be preserved by using `local'
