Find + -printf + sort conflict?
I need to pass a list of sorted, quoted FLAC file names to SoX for concatenation but am having trouble getting sort to work the way I expect it to.
If I use:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.flac" | sort
I get exactly what I expect:
./01-Lordy.flac
./02-Both Sides Now.flac
./03-Solitary Man.flac
./04-Holly Holy.flac
./05-Cherry Cherry.flac
./06-Kentucky Woman.flac
./07-Sweet Caroline.flac
./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac
./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac
./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac
However, I can't really use that for what I'm doing since I need a quoted list with no newlines. I know -printf can do that for me, but when I try:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" " | sort
I wind up with a list of file names that are quoted and separated by a single space (good!) but they aren't sorted (bad!). Or at least they aren't sorted the way I expect them to be:
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac" "./03-Solitary Man.flac" "./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac" "./05-Cherry Cherry.flac" "./06-Kentucky Woman.flac" "./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac" "./07-Sweet Caroline.flac" "./02-Both Sides Now.flac" "./01-Lordy.flac" "./04-Holly Holy.flac"
Maybe even weirder, if I just for the sake of testing use the same code but add a newline:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" "\n | sort
The sort works even if the output is back to not being what I need:
"./01-Lordy.flac"
"./02-Both Sides Now.flac"
"./03-Solitary Man.flac"
"./04-Holly Holy.flac"
"./05-Cherry Cherry.flac"
"./06-Kentucky Woman.flac"
"./07-Sweet Caroline.flac"
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac"
"./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac"
"./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac"
I'm sure I'm overlooking something incredibly basic and obvious, but for the life of me I can't think of what!
If it makes a difference, this is under Ubuntu 18.04.1
find sort printf
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I need to pass a list of sorted, quoted FLAC file names to SoX for concatenation but am having trouble getting sort to work the way I expect it to.
If I use:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.flac" | sort
I get exactly what I expect:
./01-Lordy.flac
./02-Both Sides Now.flac
./03-Solitary Man.flac
./04-Holly Holy.flac
./05-Cherry Cherry.flac
./06-Kentucky Woman.flac
./07-Sweet Caroline.flac
./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac
./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac
./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac
However, I can't really use that for what I'm doing since I need a quoted list with no newlines. I know -printf can do that for me, but when I try:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" " | sort
I wind up with a list of file names that are quoted and separated by a single space (good!) but they aren't sorted (bad!). Or at least they aren't sorted the way I expect them to be:
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac" "./03-Solitary Man.flac" "./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac" "./05-Cherry Cherry.flac" "./06-Kentucky Woman.flac" "./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac" "./07-Sweet Caroline.flac" "./02-Both Sides Now.flac" "./01-Lordy.flac" "./04-Holly Holy.flac"
Maybe even weirder, if I just for the sake of testing use the same code but add a newline:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" "\n | sort
The sort works even if the output is back to not being what I need:
"./01-Lordy.flac"
"./02-Both Sides Now.flac"
"./03-Solitary Man.flac"
"./04-Holly Holy.flac"
"./05-Cherry Cherry.flac"
"./06-Kentucky Woman.flac"
"./07-Sweet Caroline.flac"
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac"
"./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac"
"./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac"
I'm sure I'm overlooking something incredibly basic and obvious, but for the life of me I can't think of what!
If it makes a difference, this is under Ubuntu 18.04.1
find sort printf
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Do you have to usefindhere, for the recursion? Or are all the desired files in the same directory? (I ask, given the-maxdepth 1and the sample output indicating the same directory)
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I need to pass a list of sorted, quoted FLAC file names to SoX for concatenation but am having trouble getting sort to work the way I expect it to.
If I use:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.flac" | sort
I get exactly what I expect:
./01-Lordy.flac
./02-Both Sides Now.flac
./03-Solitary Man.flac
./04-Holly Holy.flac
./05-Cherry Cherry.flac
./06-Kentucky Woman.flac
./07-Sweet Caroline.flac
./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac
./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac
./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac
However, I can't really use that for what I'm doing since I need a quoted list with no newlines. I know -printf can do that for me, but when I try:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" " | sort
I wind up with a list of file names that are quoted and separated by a single space (good!) but they aren't sorted (bad!). Or at least they aren't sorted the way I expect them to be:
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac" "./03-Solitary Man.flac" "./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac" "./05-Cherry Cherry.flac" "./06-Kentucky Woman.flac" "./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac" "./07-Sweet Caroline.flac" "./02-Both Sides Now.flac" "./01-Lordy.flac" "./04-Holly Holy.flac"
Maybe even weirder, if I just for the sake of testing use the same code but add a newline:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" "\n | sort
The sort works even if the output is back to not being what I need:
"./01-Lordy.flac"
"./02-Both Sides Now.flac"
"./03-Solitary Man.flac"
"./04-Holly Holy.flac"
"./05-Cherry Cherry.flac"
"./06-Kentucky Woman.flac"
"./07-Sweet Caroline.flac"
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac"
"./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac"
"./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac"
I'm sure I'm overlooking something incredibly basic and obvious, but for the life of me I can't think of what!
If it makes a difference, this is under Ubuntu 18.04.1
find sort printf
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asked 11 mins ago
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I need to pass a list of sorted, quoted FLAC file names to SoX for concatenation but am having trouble getting sort to work the way I expect it to.
If I use:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.flac" | sort
I get exactly what I expect:
./01-Lordy.flac
./02-Both Sides Now.flac
./03-Solitary Man.flac
./04-Holly Holy.flac
./05-Cherry Cherry.flac
./06-Kentucky Woman.flac
./07-Sweet Caroline.flac
./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac
./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac
./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac
However, I can't really use that for what I'm doing since I need a quoted list with no newlines. I know -printf can do that for me, but when I try:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" " | sort
I wind up with a list of file names that are quoted and separated by a single space (good!) but they aren't sorted (bad!). Or at least they aren't sorted the way I expect them to be:
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac" "./03-Solitary Man.flac" "./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac" "./05-Cherry Cherry.flac" "./06-Kentucky Woman.flac" "./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac" "./07-Sweet Caroline.flac" "./02-Both Sides Now.flac" "./01-Lordy.flac" "./04-Holly Holy.flac"
Maybe even weirder, if I just for the sake of testing use the same code but add a newline:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.FlAc" -printf ""%p" "\n | sort
The sort works even if the output is back to not being what I need:
"./01-Lordy.flac"
"./02-Both Sides Now.flac"
"./03-Solitary Man.flac"
"./04-Holly Holy.flac"
"./05-Cherry Cherry.flac"
"./06-Kentucky Woman.flac"
"./07-Sweet Caroline.flac"
"./08-Thank the Lord for the Nightime.flac"
"./09-And the Singer Sings His Song.flac"
"./10-Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.flac"
I'm sure I'm overlooking something incredibly basic and obvious, but for the life of me I can't think of what!
If it makes a difference, this is under Ubuntu 18.04.1
find sort printf
find sort printf
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Do you have to usefindhere, for the recursion? Or are all the desired files in the same directory? (I ask, given the-maxdepth 1and the sample output indicating the same directory)
– Jeff Schaller
2 mins ago
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Do you have to usefindhere, for the recursion? Or are all the desired files in the same directory? (I ask, given the-maxdepth 1and the sample output indicating the same directory)
– Jeff Schaller
2 mins ago
Do you have to use
find here, for the recursion? Or are all the desired files in the same directory? (I ask, given the -maxdepth 1 and the sample output indicating the same directory)– Jeff Schaller
2 mins ago
Do you have to use
find here, for the recursion? Or are all the desired files in the same directory? (I ask, given the -maxdepth 1 and the sample output indicating the same directory)– Jeff Schaller
2 mins ago
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