> ifs='
> ' for (old in `{9 ls *.$EXT}) {
i think ls and the temporary file are getting in the
way. if you use globbing and execing directly from
the shell you can avoid quoting problems. for example,
for(old in *^' '^*.$EXT)
ifs=$nl mv $old `{echo $old | sed 's/ //g'}
and now for a digression ....
this looks like c programming to me. unfortunately
mv doesn't take pairs, so we can't get rid of the for
loop, but we can generate parallel lists.
i'm going to assume that ☺ isn't in any of your file names.
you could pick something else.
the trick here is to paste ☺ onto the end of every list
element. that way we know that '☺ ' are end-of-token
markers, and other spaces are just spaces. then we
can delete the spaces without ☺s, then delete the ☺s
and then turn the remaining spaces (they mark the
end of a token) into newlines.
i'm going to assume that $ext also contains the '.'.
old = *^' '^*$ext
ifs=$nl new = `{echo $old^☺ | sed 's/([^☺]) /\1/g
s/☺//g
s/ /\n/g' }
(the last two sed steps are combinable; s/☺ /\n/g.)
now that we have this, we can
while(! ~ $#new 0){
mv $old(1) $new(1)
old=$old(2-)
new=$new(2-)
}
this reminds me, the whole ifs thing is awkward because
it applies for the whole command which is almost never
what you want. i modified rc to allow one to specify a
backquote splitter. e.g.
new = `$nl {echo $old^☺ | sed 's/([^☺]) /\1/g
s/☺//g
s/ /\n/g' }
- erik
