Re: OT: shell scripts and spaces in file/folder names

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya joris

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Joris Huizer wrote:

> I now wrote a very small script which will convert
> every space in the name into a '-'
> ----
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> for i in *
> do
>   #echo "mv \""$i"\" `echo  "$i" |sed -e 's/\ /-/' -
> `"
>   mv "$i" `echo ` "$i" | sed -e 's/\ /-/' - `

you have an xtra ` after echo  or a missing ` at the end or ?

you probably want to do s/\s+/-/g instead

c ya
alvin

and for more (annoying) fun try:

touch /tmp/"bad boy; me 2! junk here" ; touch /tmp/"bad john's docs"
	( makes your bash shell go bonkers
	( and you cannot control how windoze users names their files 

to clean up the mess  ( assuming there are no real files named bad* )
	rm -i /tmp/bad*