[ale] Problems w/ mv and sed

[Geoffrey]

Can't help you much with those issues as I don't do bash, but ksh.  The 
solution below will work and will be a whole lot faster then the sed 
solution anyway.


Stephen Touset wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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