[ale] Problems w/ mv and sed

[Stephen Touset]

I'll try that in a sec, but I'm wondering why my methods didn't work.
The sed command I issued should have (and did) escape out the spaces.
The other one I tried simply surrounded the filenames with quotes. Both
of those methods worked when I typed them in manually, checking against
the actual command that the script I wrote ended up calling (from the
echo'd version of it). Why did neither of those approaches work?

Stephen Touset

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 23:31, Geoffrey wrote:
> Bingo, the first file contains an embedded space.  The space between the 
>   'To' and 'Zanarkand'.  This is the problem.  Try this:
> 
> for fn in *.OK;do
> 	mv "$fn" "${fn%.OK}"
> done
> 
> Stephen Touset wrote:
> > What do you mean by "embedded" spaces? I'll just show you a few
> > examples...
> > 
> > Final Fantasy X - OST - Disc 1 - 02. To Zanarkand.mp3.OK
> > Final Fantasy X - OST - Disc 1 - 03. The Prelude.mp3.OK
> > Final Fantasy X - OST - Disc 1 - 04. Tidus' Theme.mp3.OK
> > Final Fantasy X - OST - Disc 1 - 05. Otherworld.mp3.OK
> > Final Fantasy X - OST - Disc 1 - 06. Hurry.mp3.OK
> > Final Fantasy X - OST - Disc 1 - 07. This Is Your Story.mp3.OK
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 21:23, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>Do the file names have embedded spaces?
> >>
> >>Stephen Touset wrote:
> >>
> >>>I still get
> >>>
> >>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>
> >>>Stephen Touset
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:29, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>We just covered something similar to this a few days ago.  Try this:
> >>>>
> >>>>for fn in *.OK;do
> >>>>	mv $fn ${fn%.OK}
> >>>>done
> >>>>
> >>>>Stephen Touset wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I've been busy getting some music on gtk-gnutella, and it evidently
> >>>>>renamed files to $(FILENAME).OK if it's good after completion, or
> >>>>>$(FILENAME).BAD if it's corrupted. This is all fine and dandy, except
> >>>>>XMMS uses the filename to determine whether or not it can play the file.
> >>>>>Not to mention, I'd rather not have an .mp3 collection entirely named
> >>>>>.mp3.OK. So this is a job for sed, right? Well, here's the command I
> >>>>>wrote up, and here's the output:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>for FILE in ./*\.OK; do mv \"$FILE\" \"`echo $FILE | sed -e
> >>>>>'s/\.OK//'`\"; done;
> >>>>>
> >>>>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>>>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> >>>>>Try `mv --help' for more information.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>etc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>However, when I use an echo command within the statement:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>for FILE in ./*\.OK; do echo mv \"$FILE\" \"`echo $FILE | sed -e
> >>>>>'s/\.OK//'`\"; done;
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I get:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>mv "./Boston Pops - Final Fantasy 7 Theme.mp3.OK" "./Boston Pops - Final
> >>>>>Fantasy 7 Theme.mp3"
> >>>>>mv "./Boston Pops - Gone With The WInd - Tara's Theme.mp3.OK" "./Boston
> >>>>>Pops - Gone With The WInd - Tara's Theme.mp3"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>etc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Which seems to be as it should. Anyone know what might be causing this?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Stephen Touset
> >>>>
> >>>>-- 
> >>>>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> >>>>
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> >>
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