Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael wrote: thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :) Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* for a mod

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-10 Thread Michael
That's somehow the enlightenment i asked for :) and after all, it's good news. Thx, Mathias. I really didn't expect something to be screwed up, but assume now something went south. I'm gonna track this ASAP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Michael. Michael, 10.06.2007 18:01: > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with >> whitespaces (and even stranger characters) since … a long time ago. > > It looks like a workaround to me. > > I am wondering for many years n

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-10 Thread Michael
Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with > whitespaces (and even stranger characters) since … a long time ago. It looks like a workaround to me. I am wondering for many years now when whitespace handling will be managed automa

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael
thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :) Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* for a modern shell ! If

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael
thx. How can i set the IFS ? I couldn't find it mentioned in the manpage. And /etc r: grep ' IFS' /etc/* /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\t\n' xspec #glob /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\n' /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\n' /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\n' /etc/bash

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael wrote: > (pls reply to me i'm offlist) > > This may be somewhat OT but i know many debianos are shell experts. > I always got these problems with whitespaced filenames using shell > or fileutils commands , and currently use to do much circumstance > with tr, sed, print, and what-the-heck.

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 09-06-2007 a las 23:21 +0200, Michael escribió: > (pls reply to me i'm offlist) > > Hello, > > This may be somewhat OT but i know many debianos are shell experts. > I always got these problems with whitespaced filenames using shell or > fileutils > commands , and currently use to do muc

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Michael. Michael Wördehoff, 10.06.2007 00:34: > I am asking for recursive operations like chmod/chown -R, working > on multimedia files in deep hierarchy with possibly both dirs and folders > whitespaced. OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with whitespaces (and e

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Wördehoff
I am asking for recursive operations like chmod/chown -R, working on multimedia files in deep hierarchy with possibly both dirs and folders whitespaced. (pls CC to me) micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael
(pls reply to me i'm offlist) Hello, This may be somewhat OT but i know many debianos are shell experts. I always got these problems with whitespaced filenames using shell or fileutils commands , and currently use to do much circumstance with tr, sed, print, and what-the-heck. I just think, in