Re: Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . .

[Philip Rhoades]

People,
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:49:55 -0800
> From: John Wendel 
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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
> >
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> 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
>
> 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.