Re: [TCLUG:18790] quick way to strip spaces...

[David Wood <jbevren@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:

> > for i in `find -name *.mp3`; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\ /-/`; done
> 
> Actually, I think you may not be correctly encapsulating the $i's..  It
> might work better to use
> 
> for i in `find -name *.mp3'; do mv "$i" `echo $i | sed s/\ /-/`; done
> 
> I've noticed that filename parsing can be difficult sometimes, so this
> might not work either..

Ya know, I CONSTANTLY do that ;) <smacks forehead>

-David