[ale] Removing blanks

[Jim Kinney]

Ahh. Reread correctly.

1. Flog stupid M$ user
2. Lock out their account
3. use Geoffery's solution below
4. Flog user again to make the point clear

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Terry Bailey wrote:
> > I don't want to change any characters in a file.  I want to change
> > each " " to a "_" within the file name itself.
>
> Multiple spaces in file name:
>
> mac/home/esoteric> filename="foo foo  foo"
> mac/home/esoteric> ls "$filename"
> foo foo  foo
> mac/home/esoteric> mv "$filename" $(echo "$filename"|tr " " "_")
> mac/home/esoteric> ls foo_foo__foo
> foo_foo__foo
>
> >
> > At 11:40 AM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
> >> 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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>
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