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Re: find(1) behaving strange or do I miss something


Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
Hello all,
following situation:
I hate white spaces in file and cranked tiny bashscript for replacing
them that goes like this:
for i in `find . -type f`
do
mv $i /some_directory/`echo $i|sed 's/ /_/g'`
done

On this I get complaints from mv that it cannot find files that are
basically parts of the
name with spaces like this:
[snip]

Not that this has anything to do with Cygwin, but... well, yes, because bash is splitting at whitespace :-).

You probably want something like this:
find <args> | while read i ; do mv "$i" "${i// /_}" ; done

(note that "$i" must be quoted also!)

--
Matthew
"What is a release plan, anyway?" -- Oswald Buddenhagen
  ...who I'm sure did not mean it seriously ;-)


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