From: Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com
for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do echo "$old" dirname "$old" new="$(echo $old | sed 's/*/-/')" done I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in this case filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and probably others that I haven't come across. Anyway, $FILENAME has... /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field.psd /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.eps /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.psd and the echoes are broken with spaces like this (which of course doesn't work)...
Not sure what you are trying to do (delete or rename or...), but try "while read" instead of for (especially since the cmdline is limited)... Example:
cat "$FILENAME" | while read OLD do NEW=$(echo "$OLD" | sed 's/*/-/') mv -i "$OLD" "$NEW" done
JD