On Saturday 15 Dec 2012 21:13:45 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I couldn't get that to work as advertised. If I did it as written
> > above, it did what you said and printed out what it would do. When I
> > removed the '-n' it refused to work at all saying that the file or
> > folder didn't exist.
>
> I'd guess apostrophes were in the directory names leading to the files
> as well as the file's themselves?
I think that would explain it.
> > In the end, I used Sean's version, which worked fine once I'd got the
> > folder names short enough.
>
> Being in the directory has removed the directory name and any
> apostrophe's in them from being altered by the substitution?
That sounds right too; since Sean's version wasn't recursive, I had to enter
each folder in turn to successfully run it. So, had I run your version from
within each folder, I suspect it would also have worked.
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