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Subject: RE: shell scripts and escaped charecters in file names 
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<SNIP>
> 
> Hello,
> 	I am trying to get the following script to run with no success.
> - ------------------------------------
> #!/bin/csh
> foreach file (\*vol\*)
> mv $file `basename $file .par2`.PAR2
> echo $file
> end
> - ------------------------------------
> and get the following error:
> usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
> ~       mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
> 
> I know it is because of the spaces and such in the file names. I have
> tried quoting single double and also escaping them but all fails. what
> is the magic? Please cc me off list. thanks!
> 
<SNIP>


try the following:

ls -1|grep '\.par2$'|while read s_line
do
	mv -i "./$s_line" "./`basename $s_line .par2`.PAR2"
done;

the "./" stuff is for files starting with "-";

br...