Ezra Zygmuntowicz
1/27/2006 8:32:00 PM
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
>