On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
>
> 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 $i | sed -e 's/ - /:/'`'done
>
> but this gives me an error about moving multiple files and needing a directory
>
>
> I also tried on e-line perl script
>
> perl -we '($new=$_) =~tr/\s-\s/:\s/ && rename _$,$new'
>
> but I get uninitialized value errors. Any help on either of these methods to
> rename files would be appreciated. Also, how would I use these for multiple
> subdirectories at once?
Look at 'rename':
rename 's/\s-\s/: /' *
(Note that you don't want \s in the right hand side of a s///, it won't
put a space in like you seem to think... it will put in the letter 's'.)
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