On 10/17/2007 12:13 AM, H.S. wrote:
[...] BTW, for some reason, the following does not work: $> for f in `find E/ -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]"`; do echo "$f"; done The output of the above command has a new line before each parenthesis.
You might need to change bash's internal field separator (IFS) for that to work:
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'
for fn in `find E.DIR/ -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]"`
do
nn2=`echo -n "$fn" | sed -e 's/ *(\([0-9]\+\))/\1/'`
mv "$fn" "$nn2"
done
IFS="$OLDIFS"
And here's another way using arrays:
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'
find E.DIR/ -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]" > E.DIR/f1
sed -e 's/ *(\([0-9]\+\))/\1/' < E.DIR/f1 > E.DIR/f2
lines=(`cat E.DIR/f1`)
lines2=(`cat E.DIR/f2`)
for ((i = 0; i < ${#lines[*]}; i++))
do
mv -v "${lines[i]}" "${lines2[i]}"
done
IFS="$OLDIFS"
:-D