escaping spaces in command line --title

[nimblebooks]

Hi,

I am having some trouble escaping the spaces in command line title when using a bash variable.

where I have

ebook-convert ... foo.epub ... --title$seed
or ebook-convert ...--title'$seed'
or ebook-convert ...--title"$seed"

where $seed="Adam Hall"

I am getting, respectively, title as

Adam
'Adam
"Adam

in other words, it is dropping off everything after the space. What am I doing wrong?

[nimblebooks]

bump! still need help on this

[ldolse]

Haven't tried it with Calibre, but this is generally a good technique:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/handli...s-in-bash.html

You could also try echoing the variables to sed and substitut the spaces with '\ ', or whichever slash is needed to escape it on the cli.

[nimblebooks]

I never did solve the escaping problem, despite numerous painful experiments with sed and bash, but ultimately I realized I was making things way too hard on myself. I got rid of the --title flag and simply let Calibre determine the title automatically based on interior metadata (which I had tweaked).

[teasonc]

Originally Posted by nimblebooks

Hi,

I am having some trouble escaping the spaces in command line title when using a bash variable.

where I have

ebook-convert ... foo.epub ... --title$seed
or ebook-convert ...--title'$seed'
or ebook-convert ...--title"$seed"

where $seed="Adam Hall"

I am getting, respectively, title as

Adam
'Adam
"Adam

in other words, it is dropping off everything after the space. What am I doing wrong?

This is from a recent working script (but for
a different operation). It needed to work with
my ebooks, so there's some crossover to it.

# CLOSE ! CLOSE / ---bin--/---sh---

Standard shell above, I mangled it in case the
forum doesn't approve.

PYTHONBIN=/usr/bin/python
KMDR=$HOME/lib/kmdr.py
OUTDIR="/home/festus/Out"

for index in \
"For Whom The Bell Tolls.azw" \
"Saved By The Bell.azw" \
"The Ball of the Bell.azw"
do

INFILE="/home/festus/Download/$index"
echo $INFILE

## uncomment the following line when the echo (above) looks good.
## $PYTHONBIN $KMDR "$INFILE" $OUTDIR

sleep 3
done
exit 0

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I don't have my Calibre system at-hand so I cannot run additional tests.

EDIT: I tested the essentials. I didn't find any problem,
or other reason to edit this post to correct it further.

The mechanism is valid, but remember the shell and
a shell script are two different (but similar) environments.

OLD:
...I'm pretty sure the above was from a working script. I know a script worked last month, and I think the above script is the one that worked (before I simplified it for use in this post).

Good luck.

--teasonc