Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

did u try the code given by me ?

@abinaya
sorry, yes i did try your solution and im afraid i couldnt get it to work either

These are two methods which are very close but still dont work, any other ideas

Code:

#method1
find $dir -name "* *" | while IFS= read -r file; do
echo "$file remove spaces (Y/N)"
read opt
case $opt in
[yY])  mv -i "$file" `echo "$file" | sed 's/ //g'`;;
[nN])  ;;
*) echo "input not regonised";;
  esac
done

this script does not wait for the user input example output looks like
spaceDir/ 234.txt remove space (Y/N)
input not regonised
spaceDir/12 34.txt remove space (Y/N)
input not regonised

Code:

method 2
for file in `find $dir -name "* *"`; do
 printf "%s: remove spaces(Y/N): " "$file"
  read opt
  case $opt in
    [yY])  mv -i "$file" `echo "$file" | sed 's/ //g'`;;
    [nN])  ;;
    *) echo "input not regonised";;
  esac
done

This method waits for the user input but does not print out the file correctly e.g
spaceDir/file remove spaces(Y/N): y
mv: cannot access spaceDir/file
spaceDir/name remove spaces(Y/N): y
mv: cannot access spaceDir/name

Thanks in advance

Hi,

I have created few files with spave in between.My code works as follows.

# more test1
#!/bin/sh
for file in *.txt
do
echo " \"$file\" delete(Y/N) :"
read opt
case $opt in
[yY])rm "$file"
echo "$file removed........."
;;
esac
done
# touch "1 .txt" "2 .txt"
# touch "4.txt" "_3.txt"
# ls *.txt
1 .txt 2 .txt _3.txt 4.txt
# ./test1
"1 .txt" delete(Y/N) :
y
1 .txt removed.........
"2 .txt" delete(Y/N) :
y
2 .txt removed.........
"4.txt" delete(Y/N) :
y
4.txt removed.........
"_3.txt" delete(Y/N) :
y
_3.txt removed.........
# ls -l *.txt
*.txt: No such file or directory
#

Thanks abinaya, very useful
Calypso