Directory names with blanks - recursive file check

JamesB

12/28/23, 9:15 PM

To check the play length of audio files, I'm using the following script:

#!/bin/bash
for dir in $(find . -type d); do
cd $dir

for file in *.ogg *.wav *.mp3
do
  duration=$(ffprobe "$file" 2>&1 | awk '/Duration/ { print $2 }')
  echo -e "$duration\t$file"
done | sort -n

cd - > /dev/null
done

Where the directories being read recursively contain no spaces in the names, this works fine.

When there is a space in the directory name, the first and second parts become separated in the $dir variable, so...

dir 1

becomes

and

Unfortunately my scripting knowledge is lacking, so I'd be hugely grateful if someone could point me in the right direction so that the full directory name is passed into the variable.

Many thanks,

James.

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command-line

bash

scripts

steeldriver

12/28/23, 9:27 PM

Have a look here: [Why is looping over find's output bad practice?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/321697/why-is-looping-over-finds-output-bad-practice) - simplest would probably be to replace the outer for loop with a null-delimited while loop

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user000001

12/28/23, 9:29 PM

Instead of

for dir in $(find . -type d); do
cd $dir

use

find . -type d -print0 | while read -r -d $'\0' dir; do
cd "$dir"

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JamesB

12/29/23, 6:19 PM

Thank you! :) :)

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