[MINC-users] space in file names

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Hello,

I think it is because mincheader is actually a shell script, and the 
input file name is substituted as $1 in a couple of places.


On 12-08-02 12:25 PM, Pierre Bellec wrote:
> Dear Minc users,
>
> I think I ran into a bug related to space in file names. If I run
>
> $ mincheader /home/pbellec/Ubuntu\
> One/articles/Marrelec_BMI/real_data/atoms.mnc
>
> I get the following error:
>
> /opt/minc/bin/mincheader: 107: [: /home/pbellec/Ubuntu: unexpected operator
> mincheader: no such file /home/pbellec/Ubuntu
> One/articles/Marrelec_BMI/real_data/atoms.mnc
>
> Using an alternative method is not more successful:
>
> $ mincheader "/home/pbellec/Ubuntu
> One/articles/Marrelec_BMI/real_data/atoms.mnc"
> /opt/minc/bin/mincheader: 107: [: /home/pbellec/Ubuntu: unexpected operator
> mincheader: no such file /home/pbellec/Ubuntu
> One/articles/Marrelec_BMI/real_data/atoms.mnc
>
> Both methods will work with other commands such as "ls". You may just
> think, who puts a space in a folder name anyway ? Well, the guys from
> Ubuntu One do. Please let me know if you have an alternative method.
>
> For info, the minc tools have been installed using the minc-toolkit package
> of Vladimir. There is no "-version" option in mincheader, but the script
> has the following info:
> # Modifications:
> #   $Log: mincheader,v $
> #   Revision 6.4  2008-01-04 06:01:23  rotor
> #    * updated shell scripting style and added more verbose help
> #
> # (...)
>
> and mincdump -version gives
> program: 2.1.20
> libminc: 2.1.20
> netcdf : 4.2 of Apr 19 2012 15:06:12 $
> HDF5   : 1.8.8
>
> As a sidenote, this means that the NIAK reader/writer breaks on files which
> are located in a folder with spaces in the name. Interestingly the command
> will work if the file is zipped (for minc1 files), beause for various
> reasons NIAK will first copy the file in the tmp folder before unzipping it
> (that part works regardless of spaces and the tmp folder does not have
> space in the name). I suspect NIAK will break if the file name itself has
> spaces in it, regardless of the zip status.
>
> Best,
>
> Pierre Bellec, PhD
> Chercheur adjoint
> Centre de recherche de l'institut de Gériatrie de Montréal
> Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
> Université de Montréal
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-- 
Best regards,

  Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com