Re: Using stupid filenames in shell scripts
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:41:03AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:57:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > > Shouldn't that be
> > >
> > > rename 'y/ /_/g' *.mpg ?
> >
> > Why? Firstly, y/// doesn't take a /g option (try it, or read perlop(1));
> > secondly, he asked for *.mp3 rather than *.mpg.
>
> Yes, of course. I'd actually never heard of the 'y' thing in
> sed and my brain(?) had substituted 's' for it.
It might help to know that that's perl, not sed. :-)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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