Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . .

[Philip Rhoades]

People,


> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:49:55 -0800
> From: John Wendel <jwendel10 at comcast.net>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> 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 at 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


> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:05:19 -0700
> From: jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 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 at pricom.com.au