| Art Alexion on 22 Feb 2006 16:50:14 -0000 |
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Michael C. Toren wrote: >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:39:56AM -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > >>for OLD in * >> do >> NEW=`echo $OLD|sed s/\ /\_/g | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` >> echo "OLD=\"$OLD\"" >> echo "NEW=\"$NEW\"" >> echo -e "mv \"$OLD\" \"$NEW\"\n" >> mv $OLD $NEW >> done >> >>But this results in the error >> >>mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory >> >> > >Try replacing your "mv" line with: > > mv -i "$OLD" "$NEW" > > > This seems like a very good suggestion. >To weed out additional whitespace characters, try changing your "sed" >line to: > > NEW=`echo $OLD | sed 's/[[:space:]]/_/g' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` > >which will catch both spaces, tabs, and newlines. > > And so did this, except it didn't work. Error was /home/arthur/rpl_spaces_only: command substitution: line 43: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' /home/arthur/rpl_spaces_only: command substitution: line 44: syntax error: unexpected end of file OLD="Old Name - with spaces and parentheses.ext" NEW="" mv "Old Name - with spaces and parentheses.ext" "" mv: cannot move `Old Name - with spaces and parentheses.ext' to `': No such file or directory >See also the "rename" command, which comes with perl. > > > I didn't know I could use this on a batch, but I'll check it out. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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