Re: special characters in file names issue

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/10/23, Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Using scripts, looking to cleanup duplicate files even if named
> differently.
> The issue I ran into is when a file path contains parentheses. '(' or ')'
>
> Example File Name:  Wallpapers/Web_downloads/05 (1).jpg
>
> The following is part of an anonymous function:
>
> local E
> local -a AllFileNames
> local -A FileNameCkSum
> ...
> for E (${(@)AllFileNames}) {
> [[ -v FileNameCkSum[$E] ]] || FileNameCkSum[$E]=${$(shasum -a 1 $E)[1]} }
> # line that fails
> ...
>
> AllFileName contains the result of a glob statement.
>
> Error Message:  (anon):<line no>: invalid subscript
>
> I'm sure this is a quoting issue, but everything I've tried so far has
> failed.
>
> If someone could point me to documentation or examples it would be
> appreciated.

The code you posted works fine (although it would be appreciated if
you posted actually runnable minimal test cases, rather than
excerpts).

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Mikael Magnusson