On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:52, Andy Leach wrote:

>
> However, totaly bending my brain out of shape this afternoon & evening
> are 1/ regex  - I have files named things like "04122801 Andys great
> waterfall pic.jpg" - which is YYMMDD followed by a 2 digit number to
> order photos from a particular day and then a space followed by 5-30
> alpha and space characters followed by ".jpg". I believe that I have to
> pass this out to perl ( perl -e ?), sed or awk but am thoroughly
> flummoxed by how to get it into or out of those programs. I need this to
> check the filenames are valid, to rename them and to dump out the string
> to a file.
>

> Andy

Great bash script for renaming files with spaces in the file name;

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#BLANKRENAME

Cheers Ross Drummond

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