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Re: batch renaming for filenames with space



On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:20:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
   > 
   > I think what you want then is an extra level of double quotes around the
   > backticks, thus:
   > 
   >   for file in *; do
   >     cp "$file" "`echo "$file" | sed 's/^Copy of//'`"
   >   done
   > 
   > This is untested, though.
   > 
Would not the package mmv serve the purpose? I have used it to rename a
bunch of mp3's with spaces in their names.

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