On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:05:52PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am working on a shell script that generates file names > to use with bladeenc. Everything works right except that every > single music file the script creates via bladeenc has a ? or > question mark preceding the words of the title. Example: A > Christmas disk contains a song named "Joy to the World" which > comes out as a file named "?Joy to the World.mp3". I don't think > there is anything wrong with bladeenc because I can manually > produce "Joy to the World.mp3" with spaces and all by enclosing > the name of the output file in "" or double quotations. This > means my script is sneaking nulls or who knows what else in to > the variable which I called $songfilename. > > Isn't there something I can do in sed along the lines of > > sed '/[[0-9][a-z][A-Z ]]/p' > > to pass only blanks, letters and numbers, but filter out anything > else? > How does your script create the file names?
> The example above is not quite what I need. It just > passes everything so what I want is to pass only what matches the > regular expression. > > I did make the shell script print the title with an > > echo $songfilename > > and what it printed looked perfect. > Try this: echo "$songfilename" | od -to1z -- The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
