Programming :: Php Scripts Cant Locate Filenames With Spaces?
Apr 13, 2011
I have a fresh dedicated server that im currently configuring and needed a little help if I may ask.The problem is that i'm having a file naming issue. for example from the web I can access any file that does not have spaces of any type. ex/music/musicfile.mp3this works fine and my php script can locate itBut the problem is when I try to access a file that has spaces.ex/music/The Eagles - Hotel California.mp3my php script can't seem to locate any files like this with spaces but doesn't have a problem locating the files with no spaces.
I also took a look at the directory within shell. I did notice that files that have spaces are showing up in this formatt in shell.#/home/~username/public_html/music/The Eagles - Hotel California.mp3In shell , i'm assuming that unix/linux maybe adds a backslash before spaces. But when I FTP to this same directoy, the filename look normal and at windows standard. how could I correctly access these types of files within my php scrits? or would I need to have all uploaded files renamed so that spaces are replaced with underscores maybe?
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Mar 18, 2010
I'm trying to access a file and copy it to another location, but the drive name has a space. I'd like to rename that too.
I know that a % sign is sometimes used, but this didn't seem to work in terminal...
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Aug 18, 2010
I have just switched to banshee as my media player and imported my films and music. Problem is, the video list is quite hard to read because all the video files have spaces in their names which are replaced by % signs, numbers and letters. I'm wondering if there is a command I can use in the directory that will automatically remove all the spaces from the filenames or better still, replace the spaces with hyphens or underscores?
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Jul 11, 2011
I have a ton of files that are timestamped directories. These all look like2011-06-24_13.53.36 // a directory name for june 24th, 1:53:36 pmI have thousands of these directories. I want to do operations on some of the older ones. Let's say I give it a string for date time that matches that exact format, like i'll give it2011-06-25_00.00.00 // june 25th, 12amI want to find all the directories BEFORE my time. So if i give the string for 12am on june 25th, i want to find all the directories before then.If not i can find EVERY directory i have like this and then filter after wards. The created/modified dates are not tied to the actual timestamp im looking for (that would make this easier)
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Mar 2, 2011
does anyone know how can I use locate with rm? rm `locate "some file"` does not work when my pathnames occasionally contain:
-spaces and other characters (like + or possibly others that need escaping)
-greek characters
how can I grab line-by-line the output from locate and wrap quotes"" around the paths?
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Dec 6, 2010
I tried to tag late onto a question similar to mine on stackoverflow (Find Non-UTF8 Filenames on Linux File System) to elicit further replies, with no luck so far, so here goes again... I have the same problem as the OP in the link above and convmv is a great tool to fix one's own filesystem. My question is therefore academic, but I find it unsatisfactory (in fact I can't believe) that 'find' is not able to find non standard ascii characters.
Is there anyone out there that would know what combination of options to use to find filenames that contain non standard characters on what seems to be a unicode FS, in my case the characters seem to be 8bits extended ascii rather than unicode, the files come from a Windows machine (iso-8859-1) and I regularly need to fetch them. I'd love to see how find and/or grep can do the same as convmv.
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Dec 1, 2009
I got a filename called like this:
beach---------20090808-110000.ogg
beach---------20090808-120000.ogg
It's like this:
name----------YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.ogg
Now Im splitting these hourly files into 1 minute files. I get then this output sofar properly:
beach---------20090808-110000_00.mp3
beach---------20090808-110000_01.mp3
beach---------20090808-110000_02.mp3
and so on....
the 00, 01, 02 and up are the minutes it has splitted it. Now I need a script, after it did this, to rename the file names into this:
beach---------20090808-110000.mp3
beach---------20090808-110100.mp3
beach---------20090808-110200.mp3
beach---------20090808-110300.mp3
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Aug 20, 2010
I try to call fopen with path like
Code: char *tmpbuf = (char*) malloc(BUFSIZE);
strcpy(tmpbuf, "/home/schmidt/images/4414b-22.jpg");
FILE *fd = fopen(tmpbuf, "rb"); or
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Jan 3, 2009
I have a large number of files, all of them named /*/*.xyz I need to match them to potential files name /*/*.abc I have tried find -name *xyz |awk '// {print '$NF'}' | awk '{print $NF }' but the result has the full path I just need the filename without the extention, and without the full path.
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Apr 11, 2011
I have a directory that has a bunch of files and directories under it that I need to correct the filenames of. In fact, I plan on running this as a cronjob to keep checking filenames for certain characters. I want directories and filenames with spaces or pluses (+) to have those certain characters replaced with underscores (_). I know that this will involve sed but I'm not sure what else. A simple shell script would handle it.
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Jun 22, 2011
I am trying to compare two filenames including the paths. Basically if two paths are similar then my program wants to display message. So I need to check for if two pathnames are same in the sorce and destination. So I was trying for the code to compare tow filename sincluding "" and if the Parent FIle Path is found in the child file path then I need to displays ome message. I was trying to modify something like this:
#!/bin/ksh
# Sample script
file1="C:TextLatestArticleNews.txt"
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Jan 26, 2010
Is it possible, in Linux, to rename a file from something without spaces to something containing spaces? I know I can create directories and files with spaces by doing:
mkdir "new dir" and:
touch "new file.txt"
I want to rename files from:
imgp0882.jpg to something like:
20091231 1243 some topic.jpg
And how would it look in a shell script that uses parameters like:
for i in *.jpg do
rename "$i" "$somepath/$mydate $mytime $mytopic$extension"
?
I'm new to Linux (using PCLinuxOS 2009.2), coming from Windows, and I've written myself a little shell script to download files from my camera and then automatically rename them according to a date-and-topic pattern. As you can guess by now, I'm stuck on the bit about renaming. If you want to see my script, here's a copy. I'm not using jhead for this renaming because that only works with JPEG files but I want a single solution for any media format including videos.
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Jul 9, 2010
I am unable to write a simple Makefile. Though I know the concept am facing this error:
Makefile:2: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.
Should I give a tab or spaces not able to continue.
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Oct 8, 2010
I have been trying to code a program in C++ that must check for the correct syntax in order to operate. It must find ", " within the string, but I don't know why the compiler won't recognizes spaces.
Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
[Code]....
So the user must input "<name>, <interest>" with the ", " (comma and space) but even if you respect the syntax the compiler will skip to the else condition. I don't know why, but if I put any other condition like ",s" it will work, but not with spaces.
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Nov 27, 2010
I have a file of the type:
a = b
where a is any string and b is an integer The 'a' string doesn't have any spaces in it.
Everything was running fine till I was searching for 'a' and finding value 'b' by expression
Code:
string="$a"
egrep -i -m1 "^[[:space:]]$string[[:space:]]*=" | awk -F'=' 'gsub(/^[[:space:]]+/,"",$2)gsub(/[[:space:]]+$/,"",$2){print $2}'
I recently ran into a situation where in the string 'a' had symbols like $, & in it. Though I haven't checked it for & but $ is definitely breaking my code
Any way to egrep for string with $ ??
One way I though was to replace every occurence of $ with $ in my search expression but that would involve an extra processing each time
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Oct 1, 2010
In the code below:
Code:
The output is:
Code:
Looks like the "," operator in the print inside the loop is adding a space for its own.
I want to print the sequence WITHOUT spaces. Something like this:
Code:
But I couldn't figure out how to do this.....
How to print a sequence, inside a loop, without that space ?
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Apr 14, 2011
I've searched the forums and the google looking for a means to do this and haven't found anything I can use. I have a large file that looks like this:
Code:
18000034161828M850
18000034172676M850
98 093095
[code]...
I need to add spaces at the end of each line to ensure that every line has 80 chars before the carriage return. I was thinking something like this, but it doesn't do the right thing:
Code:
cat filename | sed -e 's/$/(bunch of spaces)/' | cut -c1-80 > filename2
I'm on fedora, so I can use awk, sed, bash, ksh, etc.
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Feb 24, 2010
Which do you prefer and why? Also, I remember someone telling me once that while using space indentation use either 4 spaces or 2 spaces. Don't use 3 spaces. Anyone know why they would say not to use 3 spaces?
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Nov 22, 2010
I'm writing something which takes user input (which may or may not contain spaces...) and then runs a command on a remote system via ssh. However the remote command does not work. I can't print the exact code so I'll just provide an equivelenat problem. This needs to work with filenames which do and do not contain spaces.
Code:
FILES=`ls`
echo "Specify a file"
echo "$FILES"
echo -n "File name: "
read $FILES
ssh root@127.0.0.1 "ls $FILES"
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Jul 24, 2010
I have a laptop that I am in through SSH. The laptop does not have an Xwindow system so I am using the program fbi to open an image on my laptop screen from my SSH connection:
fbi -T 8 picture.jpg #this opens the image on the laptops tty8 terminal
I've found that making a for loop does not work with files that contain a space in the name. Something to due with a bug that they call a "feature" that stops the first variable at the first whitespace.
Using a "while" loop is not exactly what i require either seeing as I want to be able to view each image in the directory on screen and tag it accordingly, before it jumps off to the next image, and I'm not sure how to add a pause to a while loop.
How do I make a Bash script and loop Variables handle files like "files that contain spaces.jpg"
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Jun 29, 2010
I writing a script to go through multiple reports. I want to grep daemon.debug @10.10.10.10 on all reports to make sure it is pointing to the right IP address. the problems is the space between debug and @10 are different on all the reports, some have one space some have two and some have tabs how do I ignore the tabs or spaces and grep daemon.debug @10.10.10.10
daemon.debug /var/log/ftp rotate size 20m files 4 compress
daemon.debug @10.10.10.10
authpriv.* /var/log/secure rotate size 20m files 4 compress
authpriv.* @10.10.10.10
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Jan 15, 2010
I have over 50 files names with spaces in them.
I'm trying to use a for loop as such:
However, when I print the $filename in the script, the script prints out parts of the filename because of the spaces in the file name.
For example, say the file name was Star Quest.php
When the script executes one $filename would be Star and another Quest.php.
How could I account for this? Something like $'filename'
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Sep 16, 2010
the preceding and trailing spaces around the commas in my CSV without destroying my address field. I'm new to regex and sed so this is probably easy but I just can't do it without destroying the Address section. I'm using vanilla Linux and sed 4.1.3I'm willing to use any regex or even awk if needed.
Example:
I need this
randall , dean, 11111 , 1309 Hillside Ave., Warsaw, VA , 23591
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Mar 3, 2011
I'm trying to insert a line using sed that has leading spaces before the text. Sed seems to be just dropping the spaces and only inserting the text. Any ideas what I'm missing?
Code:
NAM=rb134
sed -i.bak -e "$i
host ${NAM} {" /etc/crap
Instead of inserting a line with 8 leading spaces inserts it with "host" at the beginning of the line. I tried
Code:
NAM=rb134
sed -i.bak -e "$i
^ host ${NAM} {" /etc/crap
but it put the "^" at the begging of the line.
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Dec 2, 2010
I am trying to read a file character wise and trying to write the same character to another file. In this process, I unable to read and write white spaces successfully to the new file. The script reads the white spaces but while writing the white space is lost. The section of the code, is given below. Please advice how can i read and retain the white space while writing to a new file.
Code:
if [ -s f_test.txt ] && [ -f f_test.txt ]; then
echo "File Exists !!"
while read -n1 char; do
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Jan 11, 2011
I often get files with many spaces as part of their names. I would like to automatically replace these spaces with underscores, but otherwise not change the file name. Is there a way to do this task with just the bash shell?
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Dec 23, 2010
I have a BASH shell script with embedded SQL script. The SQL script fetches the data from oracle server and the data contains more than 8 spaces in the value (eg, 28051630 A) and the data is written to flat file using the below syntax:
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -s ${CONNECT_STRING} >${out_file} <<!!
.. sql query..
!!
The problem is that whenever the data is written to ${out_file} spaces are getting converted to TAB character
eg, 10 spaces (in Oracle) converted to 1 TAB and 2 spaces 7 spaces (in Oracle) converted to 1 TAB and 1 space Also, from above example you can see the width of TAB char is not constant (8 in first example and 6 in second example) Is there any way that I can stop shell script to convert spaces into TAB character as I want the data as it is from Oracle DB (i.e. only spaces not TABs)
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Apr 1, 2011
*I'm using Ubuntu 10.10
My issue is I can't handle the files with spaces in their name, I've donde the below script to print each file found inside folder and subbfolders with "find".
I would like to "ls" to each file found with its complete path and with its basename too.
Code:
files=$(find . -type f)
for each in "$files"
do
ls -l "$each" # 1rst option I've tried to list with full path
ls -l "$(/bin/echo "$each")" # 2nd option I've tried to list with full path
ls -l "$(/bin/echo $(basename "$each"))" # 1nd option I've tried to list with it basename
[Code].....
How can I list "ls -l" in both cases (with full path and with basename) when there are files with spaces in their name?
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Apr 8, 2011
I want to match for this string:
Code:
Content-Transfer-Encoding:[:space:]base64
Content-Disposition:[:space:]attachment;[:space:]filename="%variable%"
Both lines are new lines, so they won't be inline. Other than that, they are all constants, I want this regex match to be an if statement rather than returning match string. so if the $content variable contains some string that matches:
Code:
if `sed "//p"` ;
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Jun 21, 2010
Does any one know what syntax i could use to allow me to replace all instances at the beginning of a line with ones.
Before :
Code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device number 0
Logical device name : RAID1Mirror
RAID level : 1
Status of logical device : Optimal
After
Code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device number 0
111Logical device name : RAID1Mirror
1111RAID level : 1
11111Status of logical device : Optimal
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