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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting rename file with whitespace embedded Post 99239 by orlando47 on Wednesday 15th of February 2006 05:13:28 PM
Old 02-15-2006
OK, folks here it is...

I GIVE UP. Replacing ' ' with '_' in file/directory names is impossible/very messy using a CSHELL script. The spaces in file/directory names is a killer.

I decided to take the next career change. I will go over to my boss and tell him I quit. I am incapable of creating a cshell script that will find and rename files with spaces in them. I am useless. I have poured over numerous websites, books and interrogated colleagues. I will go to McDonalds and fill out an application. Good Bye!
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Just kidding, but I was getting to feel this way. This issue is like using a tool like a wrench to turn a phillips head screw. I have played around with Perl but have not really made much use of it. I hear how powerful it is but yet is very cryptic. I have put of learning perl long enough. This issue has opened my eyes. But what a headache. Yes, I was able to create a script that searches for and renames files/directories with ' '.

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NAME

       soelim - interpret .so requests in groff input

SYNOPSIS

       soelim [ -Cv ] [ -Idir ] [ files... ]

       It is possible to have whitespace between the -I command line option and its parameter.

DESCRIPTION

       soelim reads files and replaces lines of the form

	      .so file

       by  the	contents of file.  It is useful if files included with so need to be preprocessed.  Normally, soelim should be invoked with the -s
       option of groff.

       Note that there must be no whitespace between the leading dot and the two characters `s' and `o'.  Otherwise, only groff interprets the .so
       request (and soelim ignores it).

OPTIONS

       -C     Recognize .so even when followed by a character other than space or newline.

       -Idir  This  option  may  be used to specify a directory to search for files (both those on the command line and those named in .so lines).
	      The current directory is always searched first.  This option may be specified more than once, the directories will  be  searched	in
	      the order specified.  No directory search is performed for files specified using an absolute path.

       -v     Print the version number.

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       groff(1)

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