[2006-05-04 12:58] James Tuttle said:
| I'm need to grab a few hundred songs out of a few thousand to dump to my
| wife's IPod. I have a list of the files she selected and I wrote a
| little bash script to grab them and sync them to her IPod, but it fails
| on spaces in filenames. Probably on things like ' and & and - also.
| Any ideas?
FILES="Barry White - Let's Get It On.mp3
Barry White - Shaft Theme.mp3"
# This could just as easily be the output of ls...
# ls somedir | while read file;
echo "$FILES" | while read file;
do
if [ -e "$file" ]; then
echo "\"$file\" exists"
else
echo "\"$file\" doesn't exist"
fi
done
hth.
b
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