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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>>> Off the top of my head... $ for f in *.jpg; do; mv $f `echo $f |
>>>> sed 's/ //g'`; done
>>
>> The spaces in the file names will make this fail. The loop will
>> split the files at the spaces, so you'd end up with f=Family, then
>> f=Pic, etc. You can muck around with the IFS variable, but to me
>> it always seems easier to just use a while loop instead. :)
>>
> No, the loop will have f=Family Pic 001.jpg but the mv command will
> fail unless you use "$f" because mv will see it as 3 file names,
> split at the spaces.
D'oh! I should be more careful before correcting anyone. My
apologies to Patrick and for spreading misinformation. :)
Using a simple patter in the for loop works, it's things where you get
the loop item from a command that it doesn't work. If you had a file
with some names and tried to do
for i in $(cat filename); do ...
then you run into the problem I was thinking of. Even using
for i $(ls *.jpg); do ...
is a problem (though it's pointless to do it that way).
Anyway, thanks for the correction Mikkel.
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