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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