I know that mass file renaming can be done with sed and awk, but I have no clue what the syntax is for it. Help anybody???
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, I thought I read somewhere that either Unix or Linux files > > can't have spaces in the names, but it's one of those things where you > > can't remember what you read or where you read it. > > Files definitely can have spaces and other characters: > > $ touch foo bar foo\ bar foo$'\n'bar foo$'\t'bar \ > foo$'\b'bar f...@bar foo:bar foo*bar > > $ ls -1 --show-control-chars > bar > foo > foo bar > foo:bar > f...@bar > foo*bar > fobar > foo bar > foo > bar > > $ ls -1b > bar > foo > foo\ bar > foo:bar > f...@bar > foo*bar > foo\bbar > foo\tbar > foo\nbar > > A common topic on linux forums tends to be how to delete or rename > files with these special characters. > > Regards, > - Robert > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- <>< Scott Vargovich <>< ------------------------------------------ OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E ------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
