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

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Brian Ackermann wrote:
> 
> I did what you suggested, in the first case, while I was waiting for your
> answer...I get this now....
> 
> find: invalid predicate `(C&C Music Factory) Do you wanna Get Funky.mp3'
> 
> > or this, if you want to avoid the confusing backquotes:
> >
> > for i in $(find -name *.mp3); do mv "$i" $(echo $i | sed s/\ /-/); done

Oops..  your shell probably expanded the *.mp3 to actually be all of the
MP3 files in your current directory..  More quotes are necessary..

for i in $(find -name "*.mp3"); do mv "$i" $(echo $i | sed s/\ /-/);
done

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