Creating text file from ls output

lenik · 07-10-2009, 04:19 PM

Hello, i was trying to write a script that will list the contents of a directory in a file, but i need to add some prefix and suffix stuff to the listed files.

I want something like this:

<url='filname1.mp3'/>
<url='filname2.mp3'/>
....
<url='filenamexx.mp3'/>

so i thought about

Code:


	Code:
	echo -e "<url='$(ls -1 *.mp3)'/>"

but all i get is this:

<url='filename1.mp3
...
filenamexx.mp3'/>

Any ideas?

Wim Sturkenboom · 07-10-2009, 04:34 PM

You can loop through all files one by one. The basics below.

Code:

for f in $( ls -l *.mp3 ); do
        echo $f
done

kilgoretrout · 07-10-2009, 04:36 PM

Try:

$ ls -l *.mp3 | xargs -n1 -i echo "<url='{}'/>"

lenik · 07-10-2009, 04:50 PM

#!/bin/bash
for f in $( ls -1 *.mp3 ); do
echo -e "<url='$f'/>"
done

It works with files with no space in the name.
If there's a space it will jump to a new line dividing the file's name.
Is there a way to fix it, or better rename all files to replace the space with "_"?

lenik · 07-10-2009, 05:07 PM

ok, solved!

IFS=$'\n'
for f in `find .`; do
file=$(echo $f | tr [:blank:] '_')
[ -e $f ] && [ ! -e $file ] && mv "$f" $file
done

for f in $( ls -1 *.mp3 ); do
echo -e "<url='$f'/>" >> playlist2.xml
done

Thank You all!!