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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scripting to convert underscores to spaces Post 302248408 by Franklin52 on Friday 17th of October 2008 02:15:23 PM
Old 10-17-2008
I should not use filenames with spaces... and the use of the -r option of read forebodes little good.Smilie
But...if you want to replace the underscores of the filenames with spaces this should be suffice:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

ls *_* | while read -r FILE
do
  mv "$FILE" `echo "$FILE" | tr '_' ' '`
done

Regards
 

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GSETTINGS-SCHEMA-C(1)						   User Commands					     GSETTINGS-SCHEMA-C(1)

NAME
gsettings-schema-convert - GConf to GSettings schema conversion SYNOPSIS
gsettings-schema-convert [option...] {file} DESCRIPTION
gsettings-schema-convert converts between GConf and GSettings schema file formats. Note that the conversion is not expected to be fully automated. You are expected to verify and edit the result of the conversion. Note that GSettings schemas need to be converted into binary form with glib-compile-schemas before they can be used by applications. Options -h, --help Print help and exit -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT Store the generated output in the file OUTPUT. If no output file is specified, the generated output is written to stdout. -f, --force Overwrite the output file if it already exists. -g, --gconf The input file is a GConf schema. -s, --simple Produce a GSettings schema in simple format. The simple format is easier to edit and can be converted into the XML format with gsettings-schema-convert later on. -x, --xml Produce a GSettings schema in XML format. If the output format is not explicitly specified, this is the default. -i ID, --schema-id=ID Use ID as the schema id in the generated GSettings schema. -d DOMAIN, --gettext-domain=DOMAIN Use DOMAIN as the gettext domain in the generated GSettings schema. -u, --keep-underscores Keep underscores in key names instead of replacing them with dashes. GSettings keys should not contain any underscore. SEE ALSO
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