Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2162 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 16 August 2008 19:13:15 David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       I cannot figure out the differences that the continuations are making in
> the following lines of code. It looks like bash isn't handling the
> continuations correctly. The block of code doesn't work, the identical
> one-liner does. Here is the code:
>
> BASENAME=$(echo $(basename $1 .JPG) | sed -e 's/\"//g' \
> -e 's/^\s*//' -e 's/\s*$//' \
> -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/__/_/g' \
> -e 's/_-_*/-/g')
>
>
> BASENAME=$(echo $(basename $1 .JPG) | sed -e 's/\"//g' -e 's/^\s*//' -e
> 's/\s*$//' -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/__/_/g' -e 's/_-_*/-/g')
>
>       What say the gurus?

You want to enclose the $1 in quotes if you want it to be able to handle files 
with spaces in their names, other than that, both versions work fine for me

Anders
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