Moving files

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On 6 Jan 2003, at 10:22am, ken.lussier at zuken.com wrote:
> for i in `ls`
> do
> cp $i `ls $i | sed s/\ /_/g`
> done

  You need to quote your arguments so the shell parser doesn't split on
spaces.  And what's with the fetch for invoking ls?  :-)  Anyway, try this:

for i in *
do
cp "$i" $(echo "$i" | sed s/\ /_/g )
done

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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