[clug] Spaces in filenames?

[Peter Barker]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Paul Warren wrote:

> I've got a whole bunch of .wav files with spaces in them.  Now it seems
> that linux command line tools don' like spaces.   My usual script to
> encode as ogg's doesn't work:

I can't believe noone provided a perl solution - I saw various shell
tricks and a sed invocation... but really, people!

Old script I have lying around, "quotemeta.pl":
----
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while (<>) {
  chomp;
  print quotemeta, "\n";
}
----

so: find /misc/media/ogg-peter -type f | sort_random.pl | quotemeta.pl |
xargs xmme -e

Saves the odd piece of punctuation. 'course, you don't need quotemeta in a
script:

find /misc/media/ogg-peter -type f | sort_random.pl | perl -ne
'print quotemeta' | xargs xmme -e

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> My question is, How do I turn the spaces to underscores, or
> alternatively, make a script that can work with spaces in filenames!

quotemeta has the advantage of also taking out other potential nasties.

OTOH, the standard print0 and -0 for find and xargs is also a good one to
remember. Just screws up things like the sort_random etc.

> Paul Warren

Yours,
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