You can try to adapt this example from The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/moreadv.html#EX57
It deletes the file, but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt to your needs.
--Brian
On Monday 17 February 2003 01:11 pm, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote:
> 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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