[CLUE-Tech] removing spaces from filenames

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 14:35:05 -0400
Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:

> The for loop in bash treats the spaces in file names as different 
> "elements" for the loop.  This is really annoying as I want to process a
> bunch of files with spaces in them.  Is there any way I can get around 
> this?  Putting " " around the names doesn't seem to help.

Have you tried single quotes?

> Right now I"m thinking about piping find through sed and using mv to 
> rename all the files without spaces, but I wanted to see if anyone else 
> had something better...

I have a Perl script which does this. Let me know if you want it.

jed
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