bash script issue

[Dave Bour]

Preface script with

IFS=$'\n'

Seen this a ton of times - spaces and white space create breaks in variable handling in a loop


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Dave Bour
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> On Aug 17, 2014, at 1:53 PM, "William Muriithi" <william.muriithi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Afternoon,
> 
> I have a list of files that have horrible names and it is forcing me
> to improve the intelligence of a script I have been using to clean up
> the system after the images have been processed. Sample names are as
> below
> 
> '004378858 (152).jpg'
> '004384040.jpg'
> '004382728.jpg'
> '004383192.jpg'
> '004375871.jpg'
> '004378858 (179).jpg'
> '004378858 (155).jpg'
> '004378858 (187).jpg'
> 
> 
> If i run either of the below commands on the console, it list them
> properly as above.
> 
> #LIST=`find /home/wmuriithi/images/   -type f | cut -d"/" -f4| sed 's@
> @\\ @g' | sed 's@[(]@\\(@' | sed 's@[)]@\\)@'`
> #LIST=`find /home/wmuriithi/images/   -type f | cut -d"/" -f4|sed -e
> "s/.*/'&'/"`
> 
> If I run it on a loop, it breaks the file name into two if the name has a space
> 
> for f in $LIST;
>  do
> 
>     mv /home/wmuriithi/images/"$f" /home/wmuriithi/archive/images/"$DATE"/
> #    echo "rm $f" >> processed.list
>     echo "rm $f" >> processed.list2
> 
>  done
> 
> I get this error:
> 
> mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/\'004378858': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/(38).jpg\'': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/\'004378858': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `/home/wmuriithi/images/(53).jpg\'': No such file or directory
> 
> Now, I am curious, why do I get different behaviours above?  What's a
> better way of handling such a file name?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> William
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