AWK - OffTopic: Moving files

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OffTopic: Moving files

Pavol Juhas

2004-10-02, 3:55 pm

In article <61792dff.0410020334.356747aa@posting.google.com>, Svatoboj wrote:
> Ed Morton <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
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> Thank you for your effort. This worked for. I modyfied it
> slightly to fit my expectations:
>
> ls | awk '{system("mv \"" $0 "\"" " "$1"_"$2 )}'
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> I just wondered how to do it easily without using perl for instance.

zsh
autoload zmv
zmv '* *.jpg' '${f// ##/_}'
here " ##" matches 1 or more space characters. Use
less ${^fpath}/zmv(N) or
man zshcontrib
/zmv
to see the zmv documents.

Pavol

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