Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a number of subdirectories where I have files with - such as
> name - title.txt and I wish to convert them to:
> name: title.txt
>
> In bash I tried:
>
> for i in *-*;do mv $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/ - /:/'`'done
^
This should be a ';'.
You have to quote the filenames, if they contain white spaces.
The following, for example, works:
for name in *-*; do
new_name=$(echo $name | sed -e 's/\ -\ /: /;'); mv "$name" "$new_name"
done
moritz
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