[SWLUG] Find And Replace.

[David Scourfield]

Ah-ha, i didn't think of dashes in folder names...

Geraint Edwards wrote:
> Ysgrifennodd David Scourfield <david.scourfield at llynfi.co.uk> said
> 		(on Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:57:48PM +0000):
>   
>> tested this, which works on subdirectory entries too:
>>     tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/-/ - /")
>>     
>
> No, this will only change one dash, e.g.
> 	/Music/A-D/foo-bar.mp3
> will become
> 	/Music/A - D/foo-bar.mp3
>
> If, instead, you wanted
> 	/Music/A - D/foo - bar.mp3
> you will need the global flag on sed
> 	tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/-/ - /g")
> but, to save an external sed, I'd use
> 	tgt=${tgt//-/ - }
>
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