Re: Using stupid filenames in shell scripts
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 07:54:25AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I'm not sure what this is exactly but I have a rename script for this:
> rename *.ext to *.abc
>
> ls *.ext | while read file; do
Not sure that's space-safe; 'for file in *.ext' would be safer and
simpler.
> OLD="$file"
> NAME=$(basename "$file" .ext)
You need double quotes around $(...). Alternatively, "${file%.ext}"
works.
> NEW="$NAME.abc"
> mv $OLD $NEW
> done
You need double quotes around both $OLD and $NEW.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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