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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove spaces between file names Post 302301964 by bakunin on Sunday 29th of March 2009 02:23:46 PM
Old 03-29-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by srimitta
Any help in modifying your script to remove Apostrophe within file names.
No problem, but I am going to move this thread to "Shell Programming and Scripting" as it is not really AIX-related.

At first you have to change the filter to find also the files with apostrophes in their names. In the following, the first line is the original, the second line into what you should change it:

Code:
ls -1 | grep "[^ ] [^ ]" | while read oldfile ; do
ls -1 | grep "[^ '] [^ ']" | while read oldfile ; do

Second you have to change the replacement mechanism itself: the line where from the old filename the new one is derived. As this starts to get more complex we change from the simple "tr" to "sed:

Code:
newfile="$( print - $oldfile | tr -d ' ')"
newfile="$( print - $oldfile | sed 's/\'//g;s/ //g')"

Ready - that should do it.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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encode::mime::header

Encode::MIME::Header(3pm)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				 Encode::MIME::Header(3pm)

NAME

       Encode::MIME::Header -- MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding

SYNOPSIS

	   use Encode qw/encode decode/;
	   $utf8   = decode('MIME-Header', $header);
	   $header = encode('MIME-Header', $utf8);

ABSTRACT

       This module implements RFC 2047 Mime Header Encoding.  There are 3 variant encoding names; "MIME-Header", "MIME-B" and "MIME-Q".  The
       difference is described below

		     decode()	       encode()
	 ----------------------------------------------
	 MIME-Header Both B and Q      =?UTF-8?B?....?=
	 MIME-B      B only; Q croaks  =?UTF-8?B?....?=
	 MIME-Q      Q only; B croaks  =?UTF-8?Q?....?=

DESCRIPTION

       When you decode(=?encoding?X?ENCODED WORD?=), ENCODED WORD is extracted and decoded for X encoding (B for Base64, Q for Quoted-Printable).
       Then the decoded chunk is fed to decode(encoding).  So long as encoding is supported by Encode, any source encoding is fine.

       When you encode, it just encodes UTF-8 string with X encoding then quoted with =?UTF-8?X?....?= .  The parts that RFC 2047 forbids to
       encode are left as is and long lines are folded within 76 bytes per line.

BUGS

       It would be nice to support encoding to non-UTF8, such as =?ISO-2022-JP?  and =?ISO-8859-1?= but that makes the implementation too
       complicated.  These days major mail agents all support =?UTF-8? so I think it is just good enough.

       Due to popular demand, 'MIME-Header-ISO_2022_JP' was introduced by Makamaka.  Thre are still too many MUAs especially cellular phone
       handsets which does not grok UTF-8.

SEE ALSO

       Encode

       RFC 2047, <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html> and many other locations.

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