> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kleiner Hampel
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: shell script - expert question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> now it works, but because of the '*'.
>
> now i want to remove the leading abc from all files in my directory.
> i tried this:
>
> for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/abc//`; done
>
> but it doesn't do that.
> i always get the error, that the last arguement must be a directory!
> I guess, the reason are the white spaces in the names.
> perhaps the expression `echo $i | sed s/abc//` also have to
> be set in '' or so, but it doesn't work this way.
>
> please help
Single quotes ' are treated literally by the shell interpreter. i.e. no
filename expansion. With double quotes, your variables are expanded prior to
being used. So...
for i in * ; do
mv "$i" `echo "$i" | sed -e 's/abc//'`
done
Note: Your example has not dealt with filenames that do NOT contain spaces.
Steve Cowles
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