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Re: Using stupid filenames in shell scripts



On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:39:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Mmph, am I? Gosh.
awe has been struck at some of your comments...

> Personally I'd be inclined to use:
> > 
> >   rename 'y/ /_/' *.mp3
> 
> Shouldn't that be
> 
> 	rename 'y/ /_/g' *.mpg   ?

hugh@nomessin:~/mp3z$ ls
hello - test.mp3  hello - test2.mp3
hugh@nomessin:~/mp3z$ rename 'y/ /_/' *.mp3
hugh@nomessin:~/mp3z$ ls
hello_-_test.mp3  hello_-_test2.mp3

works without the g, so why include?

-- 
Hugh



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