bash script issue

[Bill Thanis]

Try this:

 ls | while read f ; do echo "$f"; done

The for loop uses each individual space separated word as a parameter. The
above will pass each name in the 'ls' as if it was on a separate line. You
will still have to properly quote the varaiable.

Bill




On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:53 PM, William Muriithi <
william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 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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