On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > J., > > Thanks for your suggestions. While googling comp.unix.shell today, I found yet >another method. I was not aware that "*" when used by itself matches every filename >in a directory. Apparently, part of the problem I was having was a side effect of ls >and find. Here is the script that I used: > > #!/usr/bin/bash > for file in * > do > newfile="`echo "$file" | tr '[:blank:]' '[_*]'`" > mv "$file" "$newfile" > done > > I also learned something important about tr. I was using [:space:], but that is not >appropriate here. [:space:] includes horizontal as well as vertical whitespace. >That means I was transforming linefeeds as well as spaces. [:blank:] is exclusively >horizontal whitespace, which is what I needed. > > Thanks to all of you who contributed. I appreciate your help. > > Cheers, > Sean
BTW, please remember that `blank' is a GNU extension, regarding portability issues.. etc.. ~$ man isblank J. p.s. Please use a more sane line-wrapping. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
