hello everyone!
a quick question on bash.
say i have a directory with mp3 files. their filenames are of the short
[artistName] - trackTitle.mp3

i also have the corresponding originals in wave format as
[artistName] - trackTitle.wav

now i want to copy the mp3 files from a certain artist only, to a different folder...

how can i, in one line filter the filenames i want and do the copy...

here is my train of thought which is WRONG, it makes cp fail..

1. i tried doing the filter operation:
if i do ls -h , i get the filenames without attribute info:
then if i pipe and grep 'mp3',

finally i want to cp all this list...
so i 'nested' the above command in a copy as:

so this fails. now while i was going for a long shot, and not entirely sure that bash can generate this list automatically, and use it to run the cp command... i went for it...
but it doesn't work...

is there a way to make it work however?
nass

give this a try

it should handle the escape char for spaces

Hi,

Maybe I misunderstand, but I think this can be done with one command (cp):

cp [Mis*.mp3 ~/winmx

[Mis*.mp3 => all that starts with [Mis followed by anything (*) and ending with .mp3

Hope this helps.

damn, this is quite right... i was looking for a complex way when it was so simple...

no comment please:P

hehe

btw (off topic),

slimm609, on your new pc,
-New machine-- Intel Q9650 quad-core 2.66 1333mhz FSB -
NVIDIA ultra SLI 790i - 4 GB patriot Low-latency ram DD3 1333mhz - 2x EVGA nvidia 512M 8800 GT running in SLI - 160 GB 10K raptor system drive with 2x 750GB storage drives - 24" samsung 1650x1200 5ms LCD.

are you running some linux distro?winXP?Vista? basically i'm curious if linux kernel fully utilizes things like the Quad-core, the SLI configuration...

thank you

Square backets in file names doesn't work very well because they are meta-characters. [Aa] matches A or a.
You need to escape them:
cp \[Andrew*.mp3 ~/Winmx

Putting the whole thing in quotes won't work because that will also escape the wild card "*".

Hi,

@jschiwal: Is that really needed in this case? The shell will expand the [Mis*.mp3, which will put the escape codes in there where needed. cp will get the correctly escaped files from bash.

I must admit that you should use \[Mis, even if it is just(??) for form.

I have run linux on it. The SLI is done on board so it is seen as 1 video card and the quad-core just shows as 4 CPUs. I run vista on it for gaming with dx 10 but it is dual-booted.

i plan on overclocking it in a few weeks

If you don't have the closing bracket, then it would work. However:[Misuse]- will match M- or i- or s- or u- or e-.
One thing that you can do is use auto completion. If you type in [Misuse]- and press the TAB key, the first part will be replaced with \[Misuse\]-.

Funniest thing nass, the album you are trying to rip is of my group! Hope you enjoy it

What else could one open-developer geek ask for, than to be listening to open source aware musicians:-) regardless, i most definitely enjoy it!