Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Greetings & a Script

[William S. <wes...@co...>]

On Wednesday 28 August 2002 08:53 pm, Alaa The Great wrote:
> nice script,
> I modified it a bit to be handle filenames with spaces (they are not a
> good idea I know)
>
> #!/bin/bash
> old=$1
> new=$2
> for i in *$old;
> do
>     echo mv \"$i\" \"`basename "$i" $old`$new\";
> done
>
>
> I prefer it to print the commands on stdout first just to make sure
> that everything is OK and then pipe the output to bash for the actual
> renaming to happen.
>
> cheers,
> Alaa

Yes!  That is an excellent technique for testing your work.  Everybody should 
look at this and see how Alaa is using echo to see the command that is 
created.  I do this same trick all the time while I am developing.

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