Re: the old spaces in file names thingy in shell scripts

Craig White wrote:
> My script breaks if the file names have spaces...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> BASE="/home/storage/users/craig/Desktop/dw"
> IN="in"
> OUT="out"
> for f in *.flv; do ffmpeg -i $f `basename $f.mp4 .flv`; done
> mv *flv $BASE/$IN
> mv *mp4 $BASE/$OUT
>
> How can I fix this?
>

Double quotes are your friend!

Hmm... I'd do it this way:

for f in *.flv;
do
ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%.flv}.mp4";
done

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