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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scripting to convert underscores to spaces Post 302248410 by brakeb on Friday 17th of October 2008 02:23:29 PM
Old 10-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by rubin
If your shell supports parameter substitution use:

Code:
for i in *foo*
  do 
    mv  "$i" "${i//_/ }"
  done

else

Code:
for i in *foo*
  do 
   mv  "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed 's/_/ /g')"
  done

rubin, the "sed" solution seems the simplest... I was hoping to use "tr" for the solution. I guess I need to get out a "sed" tutorial and study up a little. You know, I got on so focused on figuring this out, that I'm not even sure if I need this now... Smilie Sorry for wasting the board's time. I'll do better next time...

Thanks for everyone's help...
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       This manual describes gaphorconvert command.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
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       -v, --verbose
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       -u, --use-underscores
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       -d directory, --dir=directory
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