"cannot stat :No such file or directory " error in script

[mkannan555]

Hi, I was thinking of writing a script to segregate my ebooks and put them in their corresponding directory. And i wrote a script which searches for the file with give key word in the current directory and copies them to a specified directory.

here is the script

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then

echo "few arguments supplied"
exit 1

fi

IFS=,

files=`ls -mQ|grep -i $1`

for file in $files
do

file=`echo $file|tr -s '\n' ' '`

#echo $file
cp $file ~/tmp

done

but when i run this script i get the error message like the below for all files

cannot stat ` "Professional Java Development With The Spring Framework (2005).chm" ': No such file or directory


so what am i doing wrong, can u guys help me

thanks in advance

M.Kannan

[sdousley]

The problem you are likely having here is that the file:

Professional Java Development With The Spring Framework (2005).chm doesn't exist.

If you were to tab-complete this, you would get:

Professional\ Java\ Development\ With\ The\ Spring\ Framework\ \(2005\).chm

Been a while since i did Bash, but I *THINK* if you quote the $file at the end

cp "$file" ~/tmp

That should be fine.

[mkannan555]

yes i tried the same as u said, but still i am getting the same problem, any other suggestions please..

[matonb]

 grep -l '$1' * | xargs -I{} cp {} ~/tmp/.

Should do the trick