[CentOS] Fixing filenames with directories with spaces in the names

Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 11:01:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me.
>
> In its simplest form...
>
> for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do
>  echo "$old"
>  dirname "$old"
>  new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')"
> done

Should be
 new=$(echo "$old" | sed 's/\*/\-/')

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Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina



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