nixCraft

Hi,

I am trying to rename files but when I get to the "read" command
the double spaces in the filenames are not preserved and I end up with a
single space and the file rename fails.

code:

while read LINE
do
md5hash="$(echo $LINE | cut -c1-16)"
filename="$(echo $LINE | cut -c18- |sed 's/\.doc//'|sed 's/^/"/')"
fullname="$(echo $LINE | cut -c18- |sed 's/^/\"/'|sed 's/$/"/')"
echo mv $fullname $filename-$md5hash-$user\.doc\" >> md5rename
done < md5files

contents of md5rename file:

138fa9a642ec50fe /home/darc/cache/Customer Service Rx for Sub.doc
ffcfcf86b6216988c /home/darc/cache/BERGEN NJADONA march.doc
dc21ffbe22ecc83e /home/darc/cache/BERGEN NJADONA June.doc
1ba29dab24f2134e /home/darc/cache/BERGEN NJADONA January.doc
bf103cc1895b118d /home/darc/cache/BERGEN NJADONA may.doc


thanx,

awesome site!

Temporarily set up your IFS w/o space?

i ended up doing that.

echo "remove whitespace from file names"
ls $cachedir | grep -e "[:alnum:]" | \
while read i; do
j=`echo -n "$i" | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`
mv "$cachedir/$i" "$cachedir/$j"
done