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

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

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Troy Arnold wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/perl
> ## rename files, straight from the Perl Cookbook
> 
> my $op = shift or die "Usage: $0 expr [files]\n";
> chomp(@ARGV=<STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
> for (@ARGV) {
> 	my $was= $_;
> 	eval $op;
> 	die $@ if $@;
> 	rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
> }
> 
> __END__
> 
> usage:
> ren.pl "s/ /-/g" files

"files" must be pre-defined to exclude directories or not ??

> quicker and less error prone than one-liners.

it will also rename directories, not just files .. that you may or may not
have wanted

i always have excludes after my "ls" for everything except "this|that"

-- there is no one script that will work for all cases ...
   that's why there are lots of variations of the same thing

-- fun to see this cat still being skinned a dozen different ways

c ya
alvin