Re: Spaces in file names

"Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The suggestion shown below won't work.

Yes, it will. You just need to apply a little more brain power.

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".

There are only 2 characters that absolutely can not occur in a UNIX
filename: the NUL character (used to terminate the name) and the '/'
(used as directory separator). Since your file names above contain
one of them, they are not a legal UNIX filenames, can not possibly
happen on a UNIX filesystem, and your "exact" question is moot.

Cheers,
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