From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-01-28T05:22:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Find.find or Dir[**/*] with spaces in filenames?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz [mailto:ezmobius@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 1:03 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Find.find or Dir[**/*] with spaces in filenames?

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> 
> 	Here is a small example of what I am doing. Is there a way to  
> properly quote file or directory names with spaces in them using  
> Find.find or Dir[**/(] to recurse through a dir tree and grab  
> appropriate files?
> 
> 
> #This is part of a larger class so its just an example of the dir  
> recursing.
>    def process(dir)
>      @count_conv = 0
>      print "converting..."
>      Find.find(dir) do |file|
>       if file =~ /\.eps$/
>          @log_file << file + "\n"
>          unless test(?d, file)
>            if too_big?(file)
>              convert(file, "-resize #{@scale}x#{@scale}")
>              puts "Converted to #{@scale}x#{@scale} #{file}..."
>            else
>              convert(file, '')
> 	    puts "Converted to #{@scale}x#{@scale} #{file}..."
>            end
>            @count_conv += 1
>          end
>        end
>      end
>      @log_file << "\n\n#{@count_conv} logos were converted to  
> correctly sized gifs.\n\n\n"
>    end

This looks ok to me.  File.find yields files and directories with spaces
without any problem.  Perhaps the problem is with the "convert"
function.

The easiest workaround (if that's the case) is to rename the file before
passing it to convert, replacing spaces with underscores.

Otherwise, you'll have to be more specific about the error you're
getting.

Regards,

Dan