On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:15:22PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alexander Samad wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:49:23AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Looks like you covered it well, except for white space in files.
> >>
> >>Just one more thing to consider is that file names might
> >>be in non-ascii character set(?).
> >>So use "tr [:upper:] [:lower:]" to cover this option.
> >>
> >>You can probably get the same effect as the use of "tac"
> >>with find's "-depth" switch.
> >>
> >>I'd put your script in a file and run it with
> >>"find ... -print0 | xargs -0 your-move-script"
> >>
> >>
> >
> >couldn't you do find ... -print0 -exec mv "{}" "$(changecase "{}")" \;
> >
> >
> This doesn't make sense - the "-print0" would just output file names
> with \0 between them
> to the standard output and the "-exec" will pass the shell command line
> arguments of "mv"
> without the quotes (and therefore mv will get each white-space separated
> part of the file name
> as a file name by itself). At the least, drop the "-print0" and try to
> pass the double-quotes
> through find into the shell command line, like:
sorry missed the -printf, the point I was trying to get to was the
quoting to get around the white spaces
>
> find ... -exec mv '"{}"' '"$(changecase \'\"{}\"\')"' \;
>
> and I suspect even these quoting of quotation marks might not work still.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Amos
>
>
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