[ale] editing variables in bash (or shell)

[Greg Freemyer]

Perfection in just one try.

Thanks

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:24:33 -0500, Asif E. wrote:
> Maybe
> 
> dest_file_name=`echo $src_file_name | sed 's%/%-%g'`
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:01:45 -0500, Greg Freemyer
> <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm writing a script to crawl my data disk and collect a bunch of
> > similar files in one place.
> >
> > I can use find to make the list of files.
> >
> > Then I can use a construct like:
> >
> > cat /tmp/files | while read orig_file_name
> > do
> > echo $orig_file_name
> > done
> >
> > to print out the list of files I need to collect.
> >
> > Now I want to collect them in one place without losing the detail of
> > where they came from.
> >
> > I'm thinking something like this would work:
> >
> > cp /data/path/file ./data-path-file
> >
> > To do that, I need to create a variable dest_file_name that takes the
> > '/' and replaces them with '-' chars.  I know you can do that in the
> > shell, but I've forgotten how.
> >
> > Any assistance?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
> > --
> > Greg Freemyer
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