Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:51:08 -0500 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Rob <rob@deathbeforedecaf.net>, "BigBrother (BigB3)" <bigbrother@bonbon.net>, Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces.. Message-ID: <20030109185108.GA69391@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20030109163044.GG938@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030108175539.W65616@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <200301091519.h09FJIK7000567@goo.0x7e.net> <20030109163044.GG938@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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in message <20030109163044.GG938@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>, wrote Stijn Hoop thusly... > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:49:18AM +1030, Rob wrote: > > > If you want to do it for all files in a directory: > > > > > > # for file in *; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; done ^ ^ ^ ^ > > > > > But if you do this, won't the spaces be mistaken for filename > > separators? > > No, he has quotes around his $file, and the `` part replaces > spaces, so this should work. notice that $file is not enclosed in the sub shell (in between ``) as an argument to echo. if the $file happens to have end blanks, they will be eaten up. try... f=' p q r '; echo $( echo $f | sed 's/ /_/g' ) ...output /should/ have been '_p_q_r_', but is 'p_q_r'. > $ touch "a b" c > $ for i in *; do echo "arg $i endarg"; done ^ ^ ^ ^ > arg a b endarg > arg c endarg notice that you have enclosed the string to echo in double quotes, which preserves the spaces. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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