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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash: renaming file issues. Post 302599854 by agama on Sunday 19th of February 2012 12:43:43 AM
Old 02-19-2012
Because your filenames contain spaces, you need to quote the variable on your move command.

Code:
mv -f "$fname" "${fname#*-}"

The way it was coded, mv was seeing more tokens than just source-file and destination-file causing it to want to treat the last token as a directory name.
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savemixer

savemixer(8)						OSS System Administration Commands					      savemixer(8)

NAME

       savemixer - Open Sound System program for saving and restoring mixer settings.

SYNOPSIS

       savemixer [-LVv] [-f <fname>]

DESCRIPTION

       The savemixer program saves mixer settings. It can also load saved mixer settings back into the mixer.

       Running	this  program  without	any parameters will save the current mixer settings into /var/lib/oss4/mixer.save or $OSSVARDIR/mixer.save
       file.  OSSVARDIR is decided by reading /etc/oss.conf, and defaults to /var/lib/oss4.

AUTOMATIC SAVE

       By default the soundoff command will automatically run savemixer to save the active mixer settings. See the manual page for soundoff(1)	if
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OPTIONS

       -f<fname>
	      Use <fname> as setting file.

       -L     Loads saved mixer and device map information from mixer.save.

       -V     Version information.

       -v     Verbose output.

SEE ALSO

       soundoff(1), soundon(1), ossdetect(1), ossdevlinks(1), ossmix(1), ossxmix(1)

FILES

       /etc/oss.conf /usr/sbin/savemixer /var/lib/oss4/mixer.save /var/lib/oss4/dspdevs.map /var/lib/oss4/applist.conf

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