Andrew Beaton :: FAQ

The package I use for simple tag reading is MP3::Tag, available on CPAN with more information here.

The following example shows how easy it is to retrieve tags from an MP3 file.

use MP3::Tag;
 
my $file = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
 
my ($title, $track, $artist, $album, $comment, $year, $genre) = $file->autoinfo();
 
print "Title: [$title]\n";
print "Artist: [$artist]\n";
print "Album: [$album]\n";
print "Track: [$track]\n";
print "Year: [$year]\n";
print "Genre: [$genre]\n";
print "Comment: [$comment]\n\n";

Right, I’m sure we’ve all come across this probem before. You try use SCP to copy a file but it has spaces in the filename or directory name. Well obviously one solution is not to use spaces in filenames or directory names! But some of you lot do, so, try the following:

scp user@host:"'filename with spaces'" destination

Yes, that’s with more quotes!

" + ' + filename with spaces + ' + "