From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-01-28T05:31:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Find.find or Dir[**/*] with spaces in filenames?

Daniel-

	Doh! Your of course correct. I wasn't looking in the right place to  
see what I was doing. This will let me finish what I need to do.

Thanks
-Ezra
On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>
>> -----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?
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> 	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
>