bash script issue

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 14-08-17 01:53 PM, William Muriithi wrote:
> 
> What's a better way of handling such a file name?

There are a million different ways of doing this, and the way I deal
with difficult file names is treat them as separate records:

 find /home/wmuriithi/images/   -type f | while read f
 do
   mv "$f" /home/wmuriithi/archive/images/"$DATE"/
 done

or whatever you need to do.

If you're in charge of creating the intermediate files, make your life
easier from now on by not creating files with spaces in them in the
first place. You can't guarantee that other people will be so careful,
but your own work you can control.

Those are only slightly ugly file names you are dealing with. Here's how
to make a very special one:

 f=$(/bin/echo -e \-\ '\xe2\x98\xba'\$f\(a\:\ \\\\\'2\"\'\)\&.dat.bak\ )
 date > "$f"

This is an illegal file name on almost every other OS, and a
spectacularly ill-advised one on Linux. For extra lulz, create distinct
files based on that template, varying only in the upper/lower case of
one letter.

cheers,
 Stewart


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