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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Debian-style &#171;rename&#187; utility?</H1>
    <B>Renaud (Ron) Olgiati</B> 
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    <I>Wed Jan  2 11:24:22 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On Tuesday 01 Jan 2013 21:13 my mailbox was graced by a message from Renaud 
(Ron) Olgiati who wrote:
&gt;<i> I have been removing spaces and a number of characters that cause problems
</I>&gt;<i> in  filenames with the following:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> #!/bin/bash
</I>&gt;<i> ls | grep &quot; &quot; &gt;totototo
</I>&gt;<i> while [ -s totototo ]
</I>&gt;<i> do
</I>&gt;<i> rename &quot; &quot; _ *&quot; &quot;*
</I>&gt;<i> ls | grep &quot; &quot; &gt;totototo
</I>&gt;<i> done
</I>&gt;<i> for CHR in &quot;(&quot; &quot;)&quot; &quot;,&quot; &quot;%&quot; &quot;'&quot; &quot;:&quot; &quot;;&quot; &quot;__&quot; &quot;_-&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> do
</I>&gt;<i> ls | grep $CHR &gt;totototo
</I>&gt;<i> while [ -s totototo ]
</I>&gt;<i> do
</I>&gt;<i> rename $CHR &quot;&quot; *$CHR*
</I>&gt;<i> ls | grep $CHR &gt;totototo
</I>&gt;<i> done
</I>&gt;<i> rm -f totototo
</I>&gt;<i> done
</I>&gt;<i> echo &quot;Finished !&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Forgot why the space character is treated apart from the others, but ISTR
</I>&gt;<i> that  the for would not work if $CHR was a space.
</I>  
It came back ! It is because the spaces are replaced by an _ while the 
characters, or groups of characters, in the &quot;for CHR in...&quot; line are simply 
removed.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
-- 
             Les vieux donnent de bons conseils pour se consoler
                de ne plus pouvoir donner le mauvais exemple.
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