Re: Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . . - users - Fedora Mailing-Lists

Monday, 22 February 2016

People,

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 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:49:55 -0800
 From: John Wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net&gt;
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 Subject: Re: Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . .
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 On 02/20/2016 04:05 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> This line correctly finds one MP3 but misses two FLACs:
> 
>   ssh localhost "find
> /home/phil/music/ambient/RobertGass+OnWingsOfSong/OmNamahaShivaya
> -maxdepth 1 -type f \\( -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" -o -name
> "*.flac" \\)"
> 
> Adding extra escapes fixes the problem:
> 
>   ssh localhost "find
> /home/phil/music/ambient/RobertGass+OnWingsOfSong/OmNamahaShivaya
> -maxdepth 1 -type f \\( -name \"*.mp3\" -o -name \"*.m4a\" -o
-name
> \"*.flac\" \\)"
> 
> . . but why is there only a problem with the "flac" OR? - all three
> files have at least one space in the filename:
> 
> 01_Early Morning.mp3
> 02 Om.flac
> 01 Om Namaha Shivaya.flac
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
> --
> Philip Rhoades
> 
> PO Box 896
> Cowra  NSW  2794
> Australia
> E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au

 I usually resort to running "detox" on the file.  Try >man detox. 

Thanks for that, detox is nice but if I was going to be thinking about 
renaming files in this case I would use my own method eg:

File:

   01 Om Namaha Shivaya.flac

detox produces:

   01_Om_Namaha_Shivaya.flac

but I would do:

   01_OmNamahaShivaya.flac

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 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:05:19 -0700
 From: jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt;

 What I do is:

 find  <some dir> -name  \*.mp3 -o -name \*.flac -o -name \*.mp4

 and I get ALL the files with those extensions listed.

 Notice: No quotes!!! 

That is an improvement - thanks!

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au