tasty solution to spacemall weirdness

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / files / spacem.sh

diff --git a/scripts/files/spacem.sh b/scripts/files/spacem.sh
index aecf3b085886017e3182a44482f3c4aad95ec28b..b73a68c5a15e583fc5ee098179e103127206e030 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/files/spacem.sh
+++ b/scripts/files/spacem.sh
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ function spacem_out()
 {
   while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     arg="$1"; shift
-echo "arg is '$arg'"
     if [ ! -f "$arg" -a ! -d "$arg" ]; then
       echo "=> did not find a file or directory named '$arg'."
       continue
     fi
 
-    # first we will capture the output of the character replacement operation for reporting.
+    # we capture the output of the character replacement operation for reporting.
     # this is done first since some filenames cannot be properly renamed in perl (e.g. if they
     # have pipe characters apparently).
     intermediate_name="$(bash "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/replace_spaces_with_underscores.sh" "$arg")"
@@ -20,22 +19,20 @@ echo "arg is '$arg'"
       intermediate_name="'$arg'"
     else 
       # now zap the first part of the name off (since original name is not needed).
-      intermediate_name="$(echo "$intermediate_name" | sed -e 's/.*=> //')"
+      intermediate_name="$(echo $intermediate_name | sed -e 's/.*=> //')"
       saw_intermediate_result=1
     fi
 
-    # first we rename the file to be lower case.
-    actual_file="$(echo "$intermediate_name" | sed -e "s/\'\([^']*\)\'/\1/")"
+    # here we rename the file to be lower case.
+    actual_file="$(echo $intermediate_name | sed -e "s/'\([^']*\)'/\1/")"
     final_name="$(perl "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/renlower.pl" "$actual_file")"
     local saw_final_result=0
     if [ -z "$final_name" ]; then
       final_name="$intermediate_name"
     else
-      final_name="$(echo "$final_name" | sed -e 's/.*=> //' )"
+      final_name="$(echo $final_name | sed -e 's/.*=> //' )"
       saw_final_result=1
     fi
-#echo intermed=$saw_intermediate_result 
-#echo final=$saw_final_result 
 
     if [[ $saw_intermediate_result != 0 || $saw_final_result != 0 ]]; then
       # printout the combined operation results.
@@ -50,6 +47,6 @@ if [[ $0 =~ .*spacem\.sh.* ]]; then
   source "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/core/launch_feisty_meow.sh"
   exit_on_error "sourcing the feisty meow environment"
   spacem_out "${@}"
-  exit_on_error "running spacem_out on a list: $*"
+  exit_on_error "running spacem_out on a list: ${@}"
 fi