Comment out special signs in filenames

Lobais · 09-01-2005, 11:33 AM

Hi, I'm writing a very small script for converting my ogg files into mp3 (for the iPod). It goes as:

Code:

for i in `locate .ogg |grep /home/thomas/multimedia/musik`
do
   ffmpeg -i "$i" "$i.mp3"
done

but the problem is, that some of the files has ugly signs in them, like: "Rammstein - Feuer Frei!.ogg". As you can see in the script a surrond the file names with "quotes" to handle the spaces, but these signs like ! doesn't work:

Code:

$ ffmpeg -i "Rammstein - Feuer Frei!.ogg" "Rammstein - Feuer Frei!.mp3"
bash: !.ogg": event not found

So is there some small utility for outcommiting file names (bash does it when pressing tab) ? Or is there some other way to handle it?

Matir · 09-01-2005, 02:27 PM

Try something like:

Code:

find /home/thomas/multimedia/musik -name '*.ogg' -exec ffmpeg -i "{}" "{}.mp3" \;

Lobais · 09-02-2005, 04:57 AM

Nice one! I didn't know about the exec flag, thank you.

Matir · 09-02-2005, 11:17 AM

No problem. exec is very handy. Also, for future reference, find -print0 | xargs -0 can be useful as well.