OT: shell questions

[Dan Malaby]

I know this is off topic but this list does seem to have the most knowledgeable people
for this kind of question.

I have a 4.7 FBSD with samba running, so I get a lot of files with unkosher names ie.
spaces in the name. So what I tried doing was to write a shell script using sh that
located these files and changed the space to a underbar.

I know that if I, from the keyboard, put quotes around the offending name, that I can mv
the file to a new name. So I wrote a shell script using awk and sed to make a file with
the offending names with quotes around them. Then I tried to feed this into another
script that was going to do the actually mv. The problem was that the shell script
that read the file still thought that the spaces in the file name were separators, eventho
the names were quoted. So then I tried skipping making the extra file and just used the
awk and sed to feed the for in statement. I know that the awk and sed were working properly
because I can make a file with the file names quoted. That did did not work either, I still kept
getting file not found because it still was seeing the space as a seperator.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

TIA



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