[ale] Problems w/ mv and sed

[Geoffrey]

Do the file names have embedded spaces?

Stephen Touset wrote:
> 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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>>
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