Re: files and directories with spaces in bash script

[Robin Doer <robin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Karthik Vishwanath schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to write a script to organize/sort my music collection. All
> of my music is arranged as Artist/Album folders with tracks within them,
> and most of these names have spaces (if not other strange characters).
> The script I am trying to get working needs to get all filenames in a
> specified directory so that I can process each file at a time. I am
> trying to do this as:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # set_idv3_tags.sh

IFS=\n # Not tested!!!

> 
> for directory in "$@"; do
>   if [[ -d "$directory" ]]; then
>     for f in `find $directory -iname '*mp3' `; do
>       echo "found mp3 file: $f"
>     done
>   fi
> done


Bash uses the IFS variable for word splitting. (man bash)

HTH,
Robin
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