| 00:00.09 | j0nr | '16\ Over\ And\ Over\ Again.m4a' |
| 00:01.02 | Discordian | hmm i wonder why cp is grumbling then |
| 00:02.22 | j0nr | remove quotes, same issue |
| 00:03.08 | Discordian | On anything serious I've worked on spaces in filenames are a remove user issue |
| 00:03.47 | Discordian | but media files tend to have em |
| 00:05.02 | j0nr | so, quotes dont work, escaping spaces dont work...both combined dont work |
| 00:05.47 | Discordian | see what wetherin said above |
| 00:06.06 | Discordian | you've got the skills now |
| 00:06.26 | Discordian | you'll have to experiment |
| 00:07.02 | j0nr | indeed i will.... |
| 00:07.10 | j0nr | thank you for your time... i really appreciate it |
| 00:11.15 | j0nr | it doesnt make sense.. if i just individually run mv 'filename' destination it works... so single quotes without escaping spaces works in the mv command on its ow |
| 00:11.19 | j0nr | n |
| 00:12.11 | j0nr | its as if it isnt recognising the `cat list` as one item per line... |
| 00:12.34 | Discordian | you cat list to see |
| 00:13.18 | j0nr | i am using : for file in `cat m4aleft` ;do cp "$file" leftovers/ ; done |
| 00:14.13 | Discordian | maybe you need " instead of ' in the list |
| 00:15.27 | j0nr | erm... how do i sed 's/$'/"/g' |
| 00:15.35 | wethrin | IFS="\n" for file in `cat m4aleft`; do cp "$file" leftovers/ ; done |
| 00:15.35 | j0nr | too many quotes i hink |
| 00:16.09 | Discordian | ahh those pesky newlines |
| 00:16.21 | wethrin | And the pesky spaces |
| 00:16.54 | Discordian | bring back sysfs 14 chars max |
| 00:16.56 | j0nr | what is IFS="\n"? something to do with newlines |
| 00:17.11 | Discordian | \n is newline |
| 00:17.22 | Discordian | line feed |
| 00:17.28 | wethrin | 8 characters is enough for anyone! |
| 00:17.48 | wethrin | IFS = Internal Field Separator |
| 00:17.53 | Discordian | input field seperator |
| 00:18.02 | Discordian | wot he said |
| 00:18.06 | j0nr | unexpected tokens? |
| 00:18.09 | j0nr | I did |
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| 00:18.54 | j0nr | bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do' |
| 00:20.31 | wethrin | that shouldn't happen |
| 00:20.37 | Discordian | pulling teeth is easier than this |
| 00:20.46 | j0nr | heh |
| 00:21.27 | j0nr | what about cat list | xargs something or other? |
| 00:21.31 | Discordian | what shell are you using? |
| 00:22.09 | wethrin | j0nr: If you convert the newlines to NULs, you could get away with it |
| 00:22.10 | wethrin | BUT |
| 00:22.27 | j0nr | bash i think... |
| 00:22.28 | wethrin | xargs puts the thingy at the end of the command |
| 00:22.40 | wethrin | Whereas that's not what you want with cp |
| 00:24.20 | wethrin | So you could have a little shell script along the lines of: |
| 00:24.26 | wethrin | #!/bin/sh |
| 00:24.28 | wethrin | DEST=$1 |
| 00:24.31 | wethrin | shift |
| 00:24.40 | wethrin | cp $* $DEST |
| 00:24.42 | wethrin | <PROTECTED> |
| 00:24.52 | wethrin | And do: |
| 00:25.24 | wethrin | cat list | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ./mycp |
| 00:25.32 | wethrin | cat list | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ./mycp leftovers/ |
| 00:25.35 | wethrin | (even) |
| 00:26.00 | wethrin | Might need "\000" |
| 00:26.16 | nixofortune_ | wethrin: you should start online bash classes :) |
| 00:26.45 | j0nr | whats the DEST for? |
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| 00:26.54 | wethrin | Destination directory |
| 00:28.03 | j0nr | am i putting my own destinnation directory in there or literally DEST |
| 00:28.25 | wethrin | Well. |
| 00:28.36 | wethrin | If you just literally DEST, it's more flexible |
| 00:28.47 | wethrin | You could just hardcode your destination, so it'd be: |
| 00:28.53 | wethrin | #!/bin/sh |
| 00:28.58 | wethrin | cp $* leftovers/ |
| 00:28.58 | wethrin | <PROTECTED> |
| 00:29.04 | wethrin | And then |
| 00:29.09 | wethrin | cat list | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ./mycp leftovers/ |
| 00:30.38 | j0nr | do i need a done or something at the end? |
| 00:30.44 | wethrin | No |
| 00:31.04 | j0nr | so how is that working? |
| 00:31.51 | wethrin | It uses NUL as a separator, rather than spaces |
| 00:32.21 | j0nr | cp: missing destination file operand after `leftovers/' |
| 00:32.42 | wethrin | hm |
| 00:33.53 | j0nr | whats the ./mycp? |
| 00:34.45 | Discordian | you need to 'export DEST' |
| 00:35.06 | wethrin | It's the script I pasted above |
| 00:35.27 | j0nr | aye so do i just stick it in |
| 00:35.32 | j0nr | as you wrote it |
| 00:35.45 | wethrin | Yes |
| 00:35.46 | j0nr | just thought it might be referring to some location |
| 00:36.49 | j0nr | ... cant you just cp "cat m4aleft" leftovers/ |
| 00:36.52 | j0nr | if you know what i mean |
| 00:37.27 | wethrin | It'd be nice. But having spaces in filenames is troublesome |
| 00:37.41 | wethrin | Otherwise it'd be a lot easier |
| 00:39.15 | j0nr | even surrounded by quotes? |
| 00:40.15 | wethrin | yeah |
| 00:44.11 | j0nr | right... getting too tired now |
| 00:44.28 | j0nr | thank you ever so much for your help... no doubt i will return to bug you more soon :) |
| 00:46.05 | Discordian | a more radical solution would have involved editing the directory and s/ /_/g |
| 00:49.15 | j0nr | exec < listoffiles |
| 00:49.15 | j0nr | while read x ; do somecommand "$x" |
| 00:49.18 | j0nr | done |
| 00:49.33 | j0nr | hmm tahat nearly worked.... it read each line as a whole...but then got: |
| 00:49.48 | j0nr | cp: missing destination file operand after `"20 Days Like This.m4a"' |
| 00:50.03 | j0nr | somecommand = cp |
| 00:50.21 | j0nr | hmm where do i sepcify the destination in that? |
| 00:50.34 | Discordian | because the filename has a " inside it |
| 00:51.10 | j0nr | yup just spotted that |
| 00:51.15 | Discordian | which matches the " of "$x |
| 00:52.06 | Discordian | still it's the way to learn |
| 00:52.25 | j0nr | looking promising |
| 00:52.32 | j0nr | what is exec anyway? |
| 00:53.27 | Discordian | overlays the process with it's child |
| 00:53.54 | Discordian | source rather than exec is what you want |
| 00:54.04 | j0nr | seems to be working... |
| 00:55.16 | j0nr | i dont know how |
| 00:56.03 | Discordian | executing in a subshell |
| 00:56.55 | j0nr | got there in the end :) |
| 00:56.56 | j0nr | thank you |
| 00:57.04 | j0nr | right definately good night this time |
| 00:57.37 | Discordian | night |
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