while read used with ffmpeg produces erroneous reading of each line (Solved)
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:24 am
There are several files whose paths are included in a file list (/tmp/convertimagelist, content as below)
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/home/spot/Downloads/z's z's a.png
/home/spot/Downloads/z"s z"s x.jpg
/home/spot/Downloads/z's z"s y.png
/home/spot/Downloads/z's z"s z.jpgRun this:
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while read x;
do
echo "$x"
done </tmp/convertimagelistresults in:
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/home/spot/Downloads/z's z's a.png
/home/spot/Downloads/z"s z"s x.jpg
/home/spot/Downloads/z's z"s y.png
/home/spot/Downloads/z's z"s z.jpgBut, run this:
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while read x;
do
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "$x" /root/z.jpeg
done </tmp/convertimagelistresults in: (note the missing / at beginning of path)
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home/spot/Downloads/z"s z"s x.jpg: No such file or directory
home/spot/Downloads/z's z"s z.jpg: No such file or directoryWeird thing is, the other two files are successfully treated by ffmpeg.
I fiddled hours and did not find what caused this.