Using sed to strip sftp from url

[kubicle]

use:

maketorrent ${anounce} ${file}

instead of

maketorrent ${file}

when you call the maketorrent function, so the function gets two arguments (otherwise there is nothing in $2 inside the function)

[Xplorer4x4]

use:

maketorrent ${anounce} ${file}

instead of

maketorrent ${file}

when you call the maketorrent function, so the function gets two arguments (otherwise there is nothing in $2 inside the function)

Wow, maybe I really need to sleep(8 hours in 2 days). I will test that later or tomorrow and report back if I find any trouble. Otherwise, thank you to everyone that contributed and helped me learn some new tricks to my arsenal.


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[kubicle]

Wow, maybe I really need to sleep(8 hours in 2 days). I will test that later or tomorrow and report back if I find any trouble. Otherwise, thank you to everyone that contributed and helped me learn some new tricks to my arsenal.

Let us know how it goes...some things are really easy to miss, that's why you can never have too many debug lines when writing a script :P...you can always comment out or delete the lines after you've done. I've sometimes echoed each variable before it's used for anything, it can make spotting the problems a lot easier while you're getting it to work.

[james147]

Let us know how it goes...some things are really easy to miss,.

And sometimes they are very hard to find like missing a ; from the end of a class definition in c++... dam thing gives a compile error in a different file!!

[Xplorer4x4]

Let us know how it goes...some things are really easy to miss, that's why you can never have too many debug lines when writing a script :P...you can always comment out or delete the lines after you've done. I've sometimes echoed each variable before it's used for anything, it can make spotting the problems a lot easier while you're getting it to work.

It went great...unless it is dealing with spaces. If the file name or folder has a space in it, the spaces are converted to %20 rather then escaped. As for Echos, yeah James showed me the benefits of that the other day as I didn't think it would help here.

And sometimes they are very hard to find like missing a ; from the end of a class definition in c++... dam thing gives a compile error in a different file!!

lol I used to do some c++ work for a mod system for a game, and I know what ya mean.

[kubicle]

It went great...unless it is dealing with spaces. If the file name or folder has a space in it, the spaces are converted to %20 rather then escaped.

would adding another sed rule help:

stripedurl=`echo "${url}" | sed "s=^sftp://[^/]*== ; s=%20= =g"`

if I misunderstood your problem, please elaborate (once again )

[jlittle]

Again, using bash only (to continue thinking out of the box)

strippedurl=/${url#sftp://*/}
strippednospc=${strippedurl// /%20}

[kubicle]

Again, using bash only (to continue thinking out of the box)

strippedurl=/${url#sftp://*/}
strippednospc=${strippedurl// /%20}

the latter replacement should probably be the other way around in this case:

strippednospc=${strippedurl//%20/ }

and I'm not 100% sure, but I think the latter replacement is a bashism (of course it's unlikely to matter much since the script uses #!/bin/bash)

So either the second sed rule in my previous post or jlittle's shell built-ins should accomplish the same result (but you'll want to use ${strippednospc} in your mktorrent command if you choose the latter).