Re: [SLUG] spaces in filenames - bash scripting problem

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

david wrote:
> The scrip works as long as there are no blanks.... unfortunately there
> are lots of blanks in both directories and filenames. Can anyone tell me
> what i should be doing?
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # takes the first 3 chars of each directory and
> # prepends it to the file names in that directory.
>
> #cd /home/david/Desktop/musicbyalbum
> cd /home/david/test
> for x in $(ls)
> do

I think this might work for you

         y=$(echo "$x" | cut -c -3)
         for z in $(ls "$x")
         do
                 mv "$x"/"$z" "$x"/"$y""$z"


>         done
> done

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