[ale] Removing blanks

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Fri Jan 22 11:40:48 EST 2010


Terry Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to use either a command or batch file to change 
> all the blanks in a file name to another character?
> 
> I thought maybe sed would work, but if so, I have not been able to 
> figure it out.

cat filename |tr " " "$NEWCHARACTER"

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Bailey
> 
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