the old spaces in file names thingy in shell scripts

[Bill Jonas]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:23:16AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> #!/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

To use a bash-specific feature, you could rewrite it as follows:

#!/bin/bash
BASE="/home/storage/users/craig/Desktop/dw"
IN="in"
OUT="out"
for f in *.flv; do 
  ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f//flv/mp4}"
  mv "$f" "$BASE/$IN"
  mv "${f//flv/mp4}" "$BASE/$OUT"
done

It saves a process or two each time through the loop at the expense of
some portability.  See the "Parameter Expansion" section in bash(1) for
more details.

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