Hi Dan,
Am Dienstag den, 10. Dezember 2002, um 18:08, schrieb 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.
please send the script in question that we might help you with it.
Else try this (I tested it ...):
ls | awk '{printf "mv \""$0"\" ";gsub(" ","_"); printf $0 " \n"}' | sh
Hope that helps
Marc
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