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Thom Paine wrote:
>>
>>A little while loop would be one way to do this:
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>>ls "Family Pic"*.jpg | while read i; do mv "$i" $(echo $i | tr " " _)
>>
>
>
> I tried this command and it gives me a> prompt and sits there. Am I
> doing something wrong?
>
> And thanks to all the replies.
Tonight's not my night. There should be a "; done" at the end. As in
ls "Family Pic"*.jpg | while read i; do mv "$i" $(echo $i | tr " " _); done
But as Patrick and Mikkel pointed out, the for loop would work and
that's less typing. :)
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