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eschwartz · 12-05-2014, 12:19 AM

<== Me is dunce.

I forgot to remove the quotes, quotes imply literals which is why the space is part of the filename. But since the wildcard is quoted, IT is a literal asterisk!!!

Properly, these things should be escaped (with a backslash "\") instead of quoted, and the wildcard will work.

Code:

/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/MacOS/calibredb add --with-library=/Volumes/Ministack/Calibre\ Library --recurse /Users/IS/Dropbox/Reading\ Books/
rm -r /Users/IS/Dropbox/Reading\ Books/*

12-05-2014, 12:19 AM	#17
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	<== Me is dunce. I forgot to remove the quotes, quotes imply literals which is why the space is part of the filename. But since the wildcard is quoted, IT is a literal asterisk!!! Properly, these things should be escaped (with a backslash "\") instead of quoted, and the wildcard will work. Code: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/MacOS/calibredb add --with-library=/Volumes/Ministack/Calibre\ Library --recurse /Users/IS/Dropbox/Reading\ Books/ rm -r /Users/IS/Dropbox/Reading\ Books/* Last edited by eschwartz; 12-05-2014 at 12:22 AM.