Craig White 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 > > 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. > I found a nice little Perl script named "cmv" that will do all sorts of file name transformations along the lines you were discussing. You can get it at http://felix.canids.net/plaintext/cmv Essentially you pass it a Perl regular expression string and a list of files to use the string upon. If you wanted to replace all occurrences whitespace with a single hyphen for the files in a directory: cmv 's/\s+/-/g' * This would find all instances of one or more white space characters and replace them with a single hyphen for every file in the current directory. I've used this for about a year now and it has worked great. Hope that helps! -- Jay Leafey - jay.leafey at mindless.com Memphis, TN -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5529 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101228/83c88321/attachment-0005.bin>