On Sunday 27 July 2003 12:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the > name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for > .. in command but it splits up the lines on spaces and not on line ends. > Any ideas? > > The files are named "Copy of ..." and I want to drop the Copy of part. > I tried to do > for file in `ls -1`; do > cp $file `echo -n "$file" | sed 's/Copy of \(.*\)/\1/'` > done you can also add to the script something like:
export IFS=$'\n' for file in `ls copy*`; do... but remember to change it back to the usual value ($' \t\n') right after this. Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
