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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Having a hard time with the sed/echo commands? Post 302504045 by homeboy on Sunday 13th of March 2011 09:33:31 AM
Old 03-13-2011
you should quota the second parameter of mv,you see,if you have a file named "name with blanks",the shell will expand the blanks within variables without double quotas or single quotas or backslash.
you should change your code into:
Code:
mv "$a" "`echo "$a" | sed 's/_/\ /g'`"

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REPQUOTA(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       REPQUOTA(8)

NAME
repquota -- summarize quotas for a file system SYNOPSIS
repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ... repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] -a DESCRIPTION
Repquota prints a summary of the disk usage and quotas for the specified file systems. Available options: -a Print the quotas of all the filesystems configured with a quota mount option file at its root. -g Print only group quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist). -u Print only user quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist). -v Print a header line before printing each filesystem quotas. For each user or group, the current number of files and amount of space (in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quotas created with edquota(8). Only members of the operator group or the super-user may use this command. FILES
Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the mounted filesystem. The mount option files are empty files whose existence indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem. .quota.user data file containing user quotas .quota.group data file containing group quotas .quota.ops.user mount option file used to enable user quotas .quota.ops.group mount option file used to enable group quotas SEE ALSO
quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8) DIAGNOSTICS
Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory. HISTORY
The repquota command appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution March 28, 2002 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
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