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Old 05-26-2011, 07:22 AM   #1
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Unhappy Create a directory named like his Parent Directory


I need to create a directory named just like his parent.
Example:
/home/sina/2004 - Riot On An Empty Street
/home/sina//2004 - Riot On An Empty Street/2004 - Riot On An Empty Street

I tried this but because there is "Space Characters" in the name of Parent directory, my script fails.

Please Help.
 
Old 05-26-2011, 07:42 AM   #2
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don't use spaces in the folder names -- simple .
 
Old 05-26-2011, 07:48 AM   #3
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Or if you must use spaces (I agree it would not be my choice), place quotes around the name to preserve them.
 
Old 05-26-2011, 07:55 AM   #4
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If you need to separate the words in a filename, I think you can also use underscores instead of spaces and that shouldn't cause any confusion. I'm pretty sure anyway.
 
Old 05-26-2011, 08:16 AM   #5
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Or if you must use spaces (I agree it would not be my choice), place quotes around the name to preserve them.
Thanks, quotes are the solution
 
Old 05-26-2011, 08:20 AM   #6
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I have some flac archives and I want to convert theme into MP3 and store the MP3 folder into the flac directory with same name.
Now the names problem solved, Thanks friends.

I must copy my script in each directory and run it separately. I want it works recursively and I run it just one time and it detect all of my flac archives automatically. How can I do that?
 
Old 05-26-2011, 10:41 AM   #7
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Maybe show us what you have so far? The general idea would be to use find to capture your files and then create from there.
 
Old 05-26-2011, 10:55 AM   #8
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also, you can escape the meaning of a space with a back slash

so

Code:
This has spaces
would be
Code:
This\ has\ spaces
 
Old 05-26-2011, 11:36 AM   #9
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Quote:
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I want it works recursively
Code:
find <starting directory> --type d
That will find all the subdirectories and print out a newline-separated list of them.

See man find for more info.

To iterate over lines, use this:

Code:
<command that outputs a newline-separated list> | while read var
do
    # do stuff. "${var}" will contain the current line.
done

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