[Gllug] Processing filenames containing " with sed

[Dylan]

On Friday 04 Jun 2004 00:04 am, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
<SNIP>
> You can stick another sed in the pipeline to escape the quotes. Like
> so:-
>
> $ /bin/ls -C1 |
>
> > sed s/\"/\\\\\"/ |
> > sed "s/\(.*\) - \(.*\).mp3/mv \"&\" \"\2 - \1.mp3\"/" |
> > sh

Thanks - I took an easier route and renamed them all to eliminate the 
quotes first.

>
> If you want to do anything uglier, you should probably use perl :-).

Hmmm Can't say it's quite that important

Cheers
Dylan

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