CentOS - Dec 2010 - Fixing filenames with directories with spaces in the names

Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me.

In its simplest form...

for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
  echo "$old"
  dirname "$old"
  new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')"
done

I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in this case
filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and probably
others that I haven't come across.

Anyway, $FILENAME has...

/tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field.psd
/tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.eps
/tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.psd

and the echoes are broken with spaces like this (which of course doesn't
work)...

/tmp/New
/tmp
/tmp/New
Woman
.
Woman
In
.
In
Field/*NEW
Field
Field/-NEW
woman
.
woman
in
.
in
field.psd



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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
wrote:
> Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me.
>
> In its simplest form...
>
> for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
> ?echo "$old"
> ?dirname "$old"
> ?new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')"
> done
Should be
 new=$(echo "$old" | sed 's/\*/\-/')

-- 
Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina

From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
>   echo  "$old"
>   dirname "$old"
>   new="$(echo $old | sed  's/\*/\-/')"
> done
> I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things  - in this case
> filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and  probably
> others that I haven't come across.
> Anyway, $FILENAME  has...
> /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field.psd
> /tmp/New Woman  In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.eps
> /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in  field 2.psd
> and the echoes are broken with spaces like this (which of  course 
doesn't
> work)...
Not sure what you are trying to do (delete or rename or...), but try "while
read" instead of for (especially since the cmdline is limited)...
Example:

cat "$FILENAME" | while read OLD
  do
    NEW=$(echo "$OLD" | sed 's/\*/\-/')
    mv -i "$OLD" "$NEW"
  done

JD

Craig White wrote:
> Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me.
> 
> In its simplest form...
> 
> for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
>   echo "$old"
>   dirname "$old"
>   new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')"
> done
> 
> I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in this case
> filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and probably
> others that I haven't come across.
> 
I found a nice little Perl script named "cmv" that will do all sorts
of
file name transformations along the lines you were discussing.  You can 
get it at http://felix.canids.net/plaintext/cmv

Essentially you pass it a Perl regular expression string and a list of 
files to use the string upon.  If you wanted to replace all occurrences 
whitespace with a single hyphen for the files in a directory:

	cmv 's/\s+/-/g' *

This would find all instances of one or more white space characters and 
replace them with a single hyphen for every file in the current 
directory.  I've used this for about a year now and it has worked great.

Hope that helps!
-- 
Jay Leafey - jay.leafey at mindless.com
Memphis, TN
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Craig White <craigwhite at ...> writes:
> 
> Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me.
> 
> In its simplest form...
> 
> for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
>   echo "$old"
>   dirname "$old"
>   new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')"
> done
> 
> I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in this case
> filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and probably
> others that I haven't come across.
> 
> Anyway, $FILENAME has...
> 
> /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field.psd
> /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.eps
> /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.psd
> 
> and the echoes are broken with spaces like this (which of course
doesn't
> work)...
> 
> /tmp/New
> /tmp
> /tmp/New
> Woman
> .
> Woman
> In
> .
> In
> Field/*NEW
> Field
> Field/-NEW
> woman
> .
> woman
> in
> .
> in
> field.psd
> 
I'm more of a c-shell guy but a "for loop" uses white space
(either newline or
space) as the delimiter.  One of the other responses suggested an alternative
loop construct.  Alternatively, the find command with the appropriate commands
in either a script file or just following a -exec.  Something like:

find . -type f -exec `new = `echo {} | tr [bad chars] [replace]`; mv {} $new;
echo "old: {} new: $new" \;

The above needs lots of work but this way you don't have to visit each
directory.

Cheers,
Dave

Cheers,
Dave

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:03:49 -0700
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me.
> 
> In its simplest form...
> 
> for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
>   echo "$old"
>   dirname "$old"
>   new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')"
> done
> 
> I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in this case
> filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and probably
> others that I haven't come across.
Another way:
Installed Packages
Name        : detox
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.2.0
Release     : 2.fc14
Size        : 135 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : fedora
Summary     : Utility to replace problematic characters in file names
URL         : http://detox.sourceforge.net
License     : BSD
Description : Detox is a utility designed to clean up file names. It replaces
difficult to
            : work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents.
It will also
            : clean up file names with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters
in them.

BR, Bob