[ale] Problems w/ mv and sed

[Stephen Touset]

I still get

mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.

Stephen Touset

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:29, Geoffrey wrote:
> We just covered something similar to this a few days ago.  Try this:
> 
> for fn in *.OK;do
> 	mv $fn ${fn%.OK}
> done
> 
> Stephen Touset wrote:
> > I've been busy getting some music on gtk-gnutella, and it evidently
> > renamed files to $(FILENAME).OK if it's good after completion, or
> > $(FILENAME).BAD if it's corrupted. This is all fine and dandy, except
> > XMMS uses the filename to determine whether or not it can play the file.
> > Not to mention, I'd rather not have an .mp3 collection entirely named
> > .mp3.OK. So this is a job for sed, right? Well, here's the command I
> > wrote up, and here's the output:
> > 
> > for FILE in ./*\.OK; do mv \"$FILE\" \"`echo $FILE | sed -e
> > 's/\.OK//'`\"; done;
> > 
> > mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> > Try `mv --help' for more information.
> > mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> > Try `mv --help' for more information.
> > mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> > Try `mv --help' for more information.
> > mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> > Try `mv --help' for more information.
> > mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
> > Try `mv --help' for more information.
> > 
> > etc.
> > 
> > However, when I use an echo command within the statement:
> > 
> > for FILE in ./*\.OK; do echo mv \"$FILE\" \"`echo $FILE | sed -e
> > 's/\.OK//'`\"; done;
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> > mv "./Boston Pops - Final Fantasy 7 Theme.mp3.OK" "./Boston Pops - Final
> > Fantasy 7 Theme.mp3"
> > mv "./Boston Pops - Gone With The WInd - Tara's Theme.mp3.OK" "./Boston
> > Pops - Gone With The WInd - Tara's Theme.mp3"
> > 
> > etc.
> > 
> > Which seems to be as it should. Anyone know what might be causing this?
> > 
> > Stephen Touset
> 
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