Re: Spaces in file names

The suggestion shown below won't work. As I said in theoriginal post, I
already thought of this. I'm not just adding an extension or something like
that. As an example of exactly what I need to do, I need to change the file
named "The Hunt for Red October (Recorded 10/10/2007 18:03).TiVo" to "Hunt
for Red October, The (Recorded 10/10/2007 18:03).TiVo".

"Paul Pluzhnikov" <ppluzhnikov-nsp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

OK, here's the problem. I need to automatically manipulate the file
names
of a number of files whose filenames have spaces in them.

Here is an example:

$ touch "a b" "c d" "e f g"
$ ls -1
a b
c d
e f g

$ find . -type f | while read line; do mv "$line" "$line.bak"; done
$ ls -1
a b.bak
c d.bak
e f g.bak

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