Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:39:07 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, kpneal@pobox.com Subject: Re: Perl rename utility assistance Message-ID: <20141216203907.6dddfe9e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDsB6KC1iNHcp4Tq0HHiavJpvQYqh6-GVHq9vF2thhBvVA@mail.gmail.com> References: <54907B51.1060807@gmail.com> <20141216184002.GA26978@neutralgood.org> <CAKE2PDsB6KC1iNHcp4Tq0HHiavJpvQYqh6-GVHq9vF2thhBvVA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:20:50 -0800, jungle Boogie wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
> On 16 December 2014 at 10:40, <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
> > A little bit of quick scripting should do this without needing a
> > rename or whatever program.
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> >
> > oname="$1"
> > nname=$(echo "$oname" | sed 's/_/ /')
> >
> > set -x
> > mv "$oname" "$nname"
>
> What if you have a directory full of files you want to update?
See:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
for oname in *.*; do
nname=`echo "${oname}" | sed 's/_/ /'`
mv "${oname]" "${nname}"
done
Not that it is _wrong_ to deal with file name iteration
that way. Take my example as "works in many cases, but
you shouldn't do it that way". Instead, go ahead and read:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html
Then return to do it better. ;-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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