consider the following directory:
% ls
A 1st file A 3rd file A 5th file A 7th file
A 2nd file A 4th file A 6th file
i don't understand what's going on here; spaces in the filename seem to
delineate the end of the file, according to the following script. i trust
echo. the problem must be `ls`.
% for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done
A
1st
file
A
2nd
file
A
3rd
... (etc)
why do i care? what i would like to do is something along the lines of
(untested):
for from in `ls`; do
to=`echo ${from} | sed 's/^\(.*\).mp3$/\1 \(Phish\).mp3/g'`
move ${from} ${to}
done
but this isn't going to work if each ${to} is only a portion of a filename.
the spaces in the filename seem to be tripping this script up. how do i do
something like
% for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done
and keep files with spaces in the name "in one piece"?
i know better ways of doing this, but would like to understand what's going
on here.
thanks!
pete
