the old spaces in file names thingy in shell scripts

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 17:59 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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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clearly this is working...thanks

If you haven't figured it out...this transforms youtube .flv (flash
video) into mpeg4 files which are happy on my iPod.

Thanks

Craig