Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Copy/link files with spaces in the filename

Published
by
Rolf
on 1 August 2008
in Bash, Linux and Programming
. 0 Comments 
$ cat filelist.txt
/full/path/to/img_1529 (Modified).jpg
/full/path/to/img_1593 (Modified).jpg
/full/path/to/img_1582 (Modified (3)).jpg
/full/path/to/img_1546 (Modified).jpg
/full/path/to/img_1612 (Modified).jpg
/full/path/to/img_1663.jpg
/full/path/to/img_1670 (Modified (2)).jpg
/full/path/to/img_1713.jpg
/full/path/to/img_1552.jpg
/full/path/to/img_1538 (Modified).jpg
 
$ cat filelist.txt | xargs -d\\n -n1 -I'{}' cp -p "{}" /tmp/