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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace spaces recursively Post 302134464 by prvnrk on Friday 31st of August 2007 03:40:19 AM
Old 08-31-2007
Thannks kamitsin and Waseem.

Kamitsin, yours offer recursive solution and yes, i will use mv to achieve the rest.

I need small addon to my requirement (sorry, i did not mention earlier) that LEADING and TRAILING spaces should be removed (not to be replaced with HYPHEN). In other words, file/dir names should not start/end with HYPHENS e.g. if a file with name
" m n " to become "m-n".

Txs
Prvn
 

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vim-registry

vim-registry(5) 						    vim addons							   vim-registry(5)

NAME

       vim-registry - syntax for vim-addons registry files

SYNOPSIS

       PACKAGE-NAME.yaml

DESCRIPTION

       A  registry file is a multi-document YAML file (i.e. it can be composed by several different YAML documents separated by "---" lines). Each
       YAML document represents a registry entry, that is the information describing a single addon.

       Ideally, the registry directory contains one file per package shipping addons; with a filename obeying to the convention PACKAGE-NAME.yaml.
       Hence a single package can contribute to the registry with multiple entries described in a single YAML file.

       For example, the "vim-scripts" package should ship a single /usr/share/vim/registry/vim-scripts.yaml file, containing one YAML document per
       shipped addon. The first lines of such file can look like the following:

	   addon: alternate
	   description: "alternate pairing files (e.g. .c/.h) with short ex-commands"
	   basedir: /usr/share/vim-scripts/
	   disabledby: "let loaded_alternateFile = 1"
	   files:
	     - plugin/a.vim
	     - doc/alternate.txt
	   ---
	   addon: whatdomain
	   description: "query the meaning of a Top Level Domain"
	   basedir: /usr/share/vim-scripts/
	   disabledby: "let loaded_whatdomain = 1"
	   files:
	     - plugin/whatdomain.vim
	   ---

       Each registry entry may contain the following fields, to be typeset according to the YAML specification:

       addon (Required)
	      Name of the addon.

       description (Required)
	      Human understandable textual description of the addon.

       files (Required)
	      List of the files which compose the addon and are required to be present in a component of the Vim runtime path for the addon to	be
	      enabled.	Each file is specified relative to a component of the Vim runtime path.

       basedir (Optional)
	      Directory  where the files shipped by the addon (i.e., where the symlinks of the user/sysadm should point to) reside on the filesys-
	      tem.  Default is /usr/share/vim/addons.

       disabledby (Optional)
	      Vim script command that can be used (usually by adding it to ~/.vimrc) to prevent  the  addon  from  being  used	even  when  it	is
	      installed.  The intended usage of this field is to "blacklist" an undesired addon whose files are available, and hence automatically
	      loaded by Vim, in a component of the Vim runtime path.

AUTHOR

       James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       vim-addons(1), YAML specification <http://www.yaml.org/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 James Vega

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as pub-
       lished by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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