What am I missing in this script?

**x0054** · 01-27-2005

Hi guys. I am writing a script that would take a mp3 file split it into 8.5mb chunks and store it in to a directory with same name as the source file. Here is the script, as far as I got:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#Set the Parameters
file=$&#123;1//\ /\\ &#125;
name=$&#123;file%.mp3&#125;

#Create Directory For the Output Files
mkdir $name

#Split the File
split -b 8300k -a1 $file $name\ &#91;

#Move Files
find -name $name\ &#91;* -exec mv '&#123;&#125;' '$name/&#123;&#125;&#93;.mp3' ';'

It works fine if you do not acount for the names with spaces, but I need to account for them. I used '\ ' to comment out the spaces. But when it comes time to create a directory it messes up, same is true for the split command.

Here is what I mean, if I give a command:

Code:

mkdir this\ is\ a\ test

then evrything is just fine and it creates dir "this is a test"
but is I do the this in the script like this:

Code:

file="this\ is\ a\ test"
mkdir $file

then the script makes 4 dirs, nameing them "this\\", "is\\", "a\\", and "test"

Why is that?

- Bogdan

**PeasleeR** · 01-27-2005

In the second example script you did, you used quotation marks. Try it without them.

Robert Peaslee

**x0054** · 01-27-2005

Nope that does not work. Any other ideas?

- Bogdan

**jeremy1701** · 01-27-2005

Try this

Code:

file='this is a test'
mkdir $file

**UgoDeschamps** · 01-27-2005

hey hey x0054
Im glad to see your keeping yourself occupied with those scripts

As jeremy mentionned, try creating a file with space...

Depending on "how this works", it'll tell you if it can work or not...
I remember back in the days, you couldn't create anything with spaces... that could be the problem

EDIT : forgot to mention the solution to this... I never under any occasion create a filename with Spaces... simply replace the " " with "_" fairly easy to do, and very effective on any system

**kkubasik** · 01-27-2005

If you want to use spaces, alot of the time you need to do it regexp style with a '\' before values outside a certain range, so the string 'Hello kevin" would be "Hello\ kevin" Not sure why, but give it a try.

**UgoDeschamps** · 01-27-2005

Originally Posted by qub333

If you want to use spaces, alot of the time you need to do it regexp style with a '\' before values outside a certain range, so the string 'Hello kevin" would be "Hello\ kevin" Not sure why, but give it a try.

the "\" before tell the command interpreter not to take the next caracther as a "command option" like in C, to give a path, it would be something alike "c:\\blabla\\somefile.txt"

**PeasleeR** · 01-27-2005

Commonly called escaping characters.

I was looking around online, and never really realized how powerful bash is. I think I need to get my hands a bit more dirty than just using it to run simple commands...

Robert Peaslee

**jeremy1701** · 01-27-2005

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash2/?CMP=IL7015

You'll be happy you got it!
Jeremy

**kkubasik** · 01-27-2005

jeremy-did we review that at some point here? or was it one of those we talked about for a while but never did, or did we do something else about bash.....

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