[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Ian Norton]

i still think mine is better :-)

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:04:55AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Richard Cohen writes:
> 
> >for i in $(find <dirname> -type f -name *:*)
> 
> The *:* needs to be quoted to prevent failures when the top level
> directory contains a filename with a colon.
> 
> >	echo mv $i "$newname"
> 
> This won't handle filenames containing spaces -- quite likely if they
> were created by Mac or Windows users. You need to quote the "$i" (and
> the setting of $newname a couple of lines earlier).
> 
> Tet
> 
> 
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