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Subject:  Re: find(1) behaving strange or do I miss something
Date:  Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:22:40 -0500
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Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> Hello all,
> following situation:
> I hate white spaces in file and cranked tiny bashscript for replacing
> them that goes like this:
> for i in `find . -type f`
> do
> mv $i /some_directory/`echo $i|sed 's/ /_/g'`
> done
> 
> On this I get complaints from mv that it cannot find files that are
> basically parts of the
> name with spaces like this:
> [snip]

Not that this has anything to do with Cygwin, but...
well, yes, because bash is splitting at whitespace :-).

You probably want something like this:
find <args> | while read i ; do mv "$i" "${i// /_}" ; done

(note that "$i" must be quoted also!)

-- 
Matthew
"What is a release plan, anyway?" -- Oswald Buddenhagen
   ...who I'm sure did not mean it seriously ;-)


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