> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:57:14PM +0100, Robert Kasunic wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > > with whitespaces. How can I do that? > > You might use mmv. > > If your files are: foo_bars > then use mmv "*_*" '#1\ #2' (quotes required) > uhmmmm ... i think, that the \ in '#1\ #2' should not be there. it's intended to quote the space, but as it is already quoted within "'", it will be taken literally. if you don't quote the "#1 #2", then the backslash would be required, but then you also would have to quote the #s. so possible quotings are: "#1 #2" (here we can have shell-expansion of variables ($)) '#1 #2' (here everything is taken literally => in this case the same)) \#1\ \#2 or (a bit weird :-) '#'1' #'2 all of them work.
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