[Klug-general] genisoimage and files truncating.

[James Morris]

On 30 April 2012 19:21, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
> touch "test file"
>
> for file in *" "*; do echo "File: ${file}"; newFile=`echo "${file}" | sed -e
> 's/ /_/g'`; echo "New File: ${newFile}"; mv "${file}" "${newFile}"; done
> File: test file
> New File: test_file

Interesting that yours works indiscriminately on files containing
spaces whereas mine indiscriminately on mp3 (and MP3) files.

james.


>
> I can't document it now but with luck man pages and google will help. Run
> the one line command (which is a loop of multiple commands) in the directory
> with files with spaces in. Replaces them with underscore.
>
>
>
> On 30 April 2012 18:50, sharon kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net> wrote:
>>
>> i am using genisoimage on this folder ...../home/boztu/Music/Irish Celtic
>> Music Collection Version 2 .... which contains 2976 mp3s, but it is
>> truncating
>> the file names after the first word of their title. It appears to be doing
>> this
>> at the first space that it encounters, so I'm hoping someone can help me
>> by
>> suggesting a script that I can run that will remove all spaces in the file
>> names, before .mp3, to enable genisoimage to run properly. The iso it
>> creates
>> is 18.9gbs in size and I then run split to make it into 4gb sized files to
>> be
>> burnt to dvds.
>>
>> Can you help me please?
>>
>> Thank
>> Sharon.
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