[SWLUG] Find And Replace.

[Geraint Edwards]

Ysgrifennodd Geraint Edwards <gedge-lists-swlug at yadn.org> said
		(on Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:52:49PM +0000):
> 	tgt_f=${tgt/-/ - }

Oops, try this instead:

#!/bin/bash
for src in $( find Music -type f -name \*.mp3 ); do
	#	tgt_f = src filename (remove path)
	tgt_f=${src##*/}
	#	put spaces around (first) dash in tgt_f
	tgt_f=${tgt_f/-/ - }
	#	rename file, keeping in same directory, i.e. in ${src%/*} 
	mv -i "$src" "${src%/*}/$tgt_f"
done


Note, that I've quoted "$src" (etc.) because they will likely have special
characters in them, like spaces, and need to be treated as one argument
(not multiple space-separated arguments, as seen by the errors in your
later post).

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Geraint A. Edwards (aka "Gedge")
gedge at yadn.org