Moving files

[Bob Bell]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:27:12AM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size <Ken.Coar at golux.com> wrote:
> find . -name \*\ \* | (while read foo ; do mv "$foo" `echo $foo | sed -e 
> 's/ /_/g;'` ; done)

    I think that'll break if directories contain spaces -- easily fixed
with "-type f" if you don't want to rename directories; a little
trickier if you do (check my example).  Oh, and I don't think the parens
are needed.

-- 
Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
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