[ale] command fails thru xargs but succeeds from shell prompt

[Tim Watts]

Yeah, I tried it w/o the 2nd quotes but it complained when some of the
dirs had spaces in them. However, that -print0 would probably work.
Would be more elegant than the sh -c kludge I settled on. I'll try that
on a 2nd batch. Thanks.


On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 15:43 -0500, Mark Heiges wrote:
> You're double quoting - in the printf and again for the mv. Try this
> 
>   find Video/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -printf "\"%p\"\n" | xargs -tn1 - 
> I"{}" mv -v {} /alt/video/
> 
> or use find's --print0 with xarg's -0 options.
> 
>   find Video/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -print0  | xargs -0 -tn1 -I"{}" mv - 
> v {} /alt/video/
> 
> 
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to move some files. When I try it using xargs it fails but
> > when I try the exact same command at the shell prompt that xargs  
> > echoes
> > it succeeds.
> >
> > Here's the command:
> >
> > $ find Video/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -printf "\"%p\"\n" | xargs -tn1
> > -I"{}" mv -v \"{}\" /alt/video/
> >
> > Here's what happens when I run it:
> >
> > mv -v "Video/Weeds - Season 1" /alt/video/
> > mv: cannot stat `"Video/Weeds - Season 1"': No such file or directory
> > ...
> >
> > But when I just run the mv command it succeeds. What's going on here?
> >
> >
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