Moving files

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Mon Jan 6 10:44:48 EST 2003


In a message dated: 06 Jan 2003 10:22:14 EST
"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:

>for i in `ls`
>do
>cp $i `ls $i | sed s/\ /_/g`
>done
>
>should do the trick. It didn't. It keeps complaining because it tries to
>copy each word. What am I missing?

Try:
	cp $i `ls "$i" | sed s/\ /_/g'

	
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