Hello,
I am trying to write a bash shell script that will translate spaces in file names into
underline characters. This is the script as I have it now:
for file in `ls`
do
echo $file
newfile=`ls ${file} | tr '[:space:]' '[_*]'`
echo File is named ${file}
echo The new file is named ${newfile}
# [[ -s $newfile ]] || (mv $file $newfile)
sleep 2
done
The lines that begin with echo and the sleep line are for debugging. What they have
shown me is that the $file is getting set to the first word in the file name on the
first iteration, the second word on the second interation, etc. (The file names look
like "001 of 150 files", "002 of 150 files", etc.) So, on the first iteration, $file
is egual to "001", on the second iteration $file is equal to "of", etc. Yet, if I go
to the directory and issue `ls`, the filenames are shown as one would expect with the
whole four word filename on one line.
Can anyone give me a hint on how to fix this so that the whole filename is loaded into
$file?
TIA,
Sean
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Theo. Sean Schulze
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