another shell script question!
hi! i have a dvd full of mp3 organized in \bandname\albumname\files. mp3 now i need a script which walks through this structure and creates in a dir on my hd anonymized links for example: band00x_album00x_00x i need this for accessing the whole files from MATLAB.
hi!
i have a dvd full of mp3 organized in \bandname\albumname\files.mp3
now i need a script which walks through this structure and creates in a dir on my hd anonymized links for example: band00x_album00x_00x
i need this for accessing the whole files from MATLAB.
The problem i have is that the directory names on the dvd contain whitespaces.
If i do
for mydir in $(find -type d ); do
cd $mydir
...
done
it doesnt work because $mydir contains only the first silbling of a directory name containing spaces is used. (example dirname:"alice in chains", $mydir only contains "alice")
how do i get the full dirname?
or should i do the whole thing in a other way?
thanks for help
stefan
i have a dvd full of mp3 organized in \bandname\albumname\files.mp3
now i need a script which walks through this structure and creates in a dir on my hd anonymized links for example: band00x_album00x_00x
i need this for accessing the whole files from MATLAB.
The problem i have is that the directory names on the dvd contain whitespaces.
If i do
for mydir in $(find -type d ); do
cd $mydir
...
done
it doesnt work because $mydir contains only the first silbling of a directory name containing spaces is used. (example dirname:"alice in chains", $mydir only contains "alice")
how do i get the full dirname?
or should i do the whole thing in a other way?
thanks for help
stefan
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I do some shell scripting from time to time in my job...
This problem didn't seem so hard until I tried to play with it a bit...but it was. It's quite hard to read into an array or otherwise do something so that the part of the path separated by a space isn't treated as a separated path.
Anyway, try something like this:
find $PWD -type d|{
while read aline;do
cd "$aline"
do-some-commands-here...
done }
That's a pipe symbol "|" after the "d" and before the "{" .
HTH.
This problem didn't seem so hard until I tried to play with it a bit...but it was. It's quite hard to read into an array or otherwise do something so that the part of the path separated by a space isn't treated as a separated path.
Anyway, try something like this:
find $PWD -type d|{
while read aline;do
cd "$aline"
do-some-commands-here...
done }
That's a pipe symbol "|" after the "d" and before the "{" .
HTH.
