Bizarre char set issue?

jhwilliams · 11-14-2007, 11:33 PM

Code:

jameson@navy:~/pix/oxford_1/CCD (Digital)$ for item in `ls 000*`; do mv $item `echo $item | sed 's/^000//g'`; done
mv: cannot stat `\033[00m\033[01;35m00001.jpg\033[00m': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\033[01;35m00002.jpg\033[00m': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\033[01;35m00003.jpg\033[00m': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\033[01;35m00004.jpg\033[00m': No such file or directory

what on earth is going on here? The files are named like: 00007.jpg

Nick_Battle · 11-15-2007, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhwilliams

what on earth is going on here? The files are named like: 00007.jpg

Is "ls" an alias for a version which prints listings with pretty colours? (Try "alias" in bash to list your aliases). The --color argument to ls should not produce these escapes if the value is "auto" and the output is not a tty, but it might be "always".

If so, you can either remove the alias (only affects the current shell), or use /usr/bin/ls in the script instead of ls.

HTH,
-nick

jhwilliams · 11-15-2007, 05:14 PM

Oh right; I had in fact just set that alias a moment before. Cheers!

archtoad6 · 11-18-2007, 06:32 AM

Why were you using:

Code:

for item in `ls 000*`

when

Code:

for item in "000*"

usually produces the same results?

jhwilliams · 11-21-2007, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by archtoad6

Why were you using:

Code:

for item in `ls 000*`

when

Code:

for item in "000*"

usually produces the same results?

Never tried it that way - my way worked so became habit. Thanks for the short cut!

archtoad6 · 11-22-2007, 11:40 AM

You're welcome.