the old spaces in file names thingy in shell scripts

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:52 -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> In article <1192062267.4942.89.camel at cube.tobyhouse.com> you write:
> > 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
> 
> I don't think the above basename args do what you want.
> 
> > mv *flv $BASE/$IN
> > mv *mp4 $BASE/$OUT
> > 
> > How can I fix this?
> 
> I think you want something like:
> 
> ===== begin script =======
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> BASE="/home/storage/users/craig/Desktop/dw"
> IN="in"
> OUT="out"
> 
> for f in *.flv; do
> 	MP4="`basename "$f" .flv`.mp4"
> 	ffmpeg -i "$f" "$MP4"
> 	mv "$f" "$BASE/$IN"
> 	mv "$MP4" "$BASE/$OUT"
> done
> ===== end script =======
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I like this too - in fact, the two methods are highly instructive for
me.

When the current batch is finished, I'm going to try this method out.

Thanks

Craig