On 16 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote:
> 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 $i | sed s/abc//` also have to be set in ''
> or so, but it doesn't work this way.
>
> please help
>
> regards,
> hampel
>
for i in *; do temp=$(echo $i | sed s/abc.//) ; mv "$i" "$temp" ; done
The . after abc is so your file names do not start with a space. You
need the quotes around both $i and $temp so that they are treated as a
single file name. You may want to modify the sed expression to remove
all the spaces when you have more then one space after abc.
Mikkel
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