Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces

[Karl Vogel]

>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:47:25 -0700, 
>> Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> said:

D> Then I attempt to use 'basename' to extract the file name to a variable
D> which I can later pass to 'ln'.  This seems to work:
D>   basename "/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA
D>   Singles/1980-028 Kenny Loggins - This Is It.mp3"

   This is a subset of a larger problem: getting the last field from a set
   of delimited records which may not all have the same number of fields.

   I've used this when I needed basenames for ~500,000 files:
     find . regex-or-print-or-whatever | rev | cut -f1 -d/ | rev

   For dirnames:
     find . regex-or-print-or-whatever | rev | cut -f2- -d/ | rev | sort -u

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