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| From | Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: I hate shell |
| Date | 2020-06-24 20:54 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rd0eht$i3e$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <qCCKo9.12oEI@yahoo.com> <rcrv0b$4l8$1@dont-email.me> <20200623101537.25a04922@nx-74205> <rct2u2$4f7$1@dont-email.me> <20200623165834.592758d0@nx-74205> |
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:58:34 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
> On 23.06.2020 at 14:17, Joe Beanfish scribbled:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:15:37 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
>> >
>> > for video in *
>> > do
>> > name-without-suffix=$(basename ${video%.*})
>> > # Do your encoding stuff here
>> > done
>>
>> Hyphens aren't valid in variable names. Use underscore or camelCase
>> or something. Add quotes to handle spaces in file names.
>
> I know that. It wasn't meant to be taken literally.
>
>> name_without_suffix=$(basename "${video%.*}")
>>
>> When someone's struggling with shell syntax, it helps to use
>> syntactically valid examples. Saying "here's my pseudo-code
>> example, go rtfm to fix it" doesn't help.
>
> He's been around for so long that he ought to have known about these
> things things better than I do. He wasn't struggling at all. He's just
> deliberately being obtuse so as to warrant a diatribe against shell
> syntax.
If you feel that way about it, then just skip merrily on to the
next message without replying.
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