Hi folks,
I'm piecing together a small script to remove duplicate messages from
various directories in Icedove. By default the files are stored in a
directory called 'Local Folders' - with the space - and this seems to be
creating a problem for bash. I can both cd to "Local Folders" and cd to
Local\ Folders from the command line but within the script it's a
different story. Bash refuses to recognize "Local Folders" as a
directory and breaks at the whitespace. Here's the script and the error
output. Any help appreciated.
bill
#! /bin/bash
# A script to remove duplicate messages
FILES=/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local\
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*
# or "/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local
Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*"
for i in $FILES
do
mv "$i" ""$i".saved"
formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache -s < ""$i".saved" > "$i"
done
mv: cannot stat `/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local': No
such file or directory
./mailscript: line 10:
/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local.saved: No such file or
directory
mv: cannot stat `Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*': No such file or directory
./mailscript: line 10: Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*.saved: No such file or
directory
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