On Sep 22, 4:55 am, MisterMuv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chg=echo $f |sed 's:(www.somewhere.net)::' > mv $f $chg
> What am I doing wrong? just use this: mv "$f" "$chg", when your filenames are using spaces and other weird characters Also, I would suggest removing trailing spaces from filenames: for f in *; do chg=`echo $f | sed 's: (somewhere.net)::'`;mv "$f" "$chg"; done Yes, if you notice, you could forget nifty quotes ``, usually used for command execution.
