[ale] Removing blanks

[Geoffrey]

Terry Bailey wrote:
> I don't want to change any characters in a file.  I want to change 
> each " " to a "_" within the file name itself.

Multiple spaces in file name:

mac/home/esoteric> filename="foo foo  foo"
mac/home/esoteric> ls "$filename"
foo foo  foo
mac/home/esoteric> mv "$filename" $(echo "$filename"|tr " " "_")
mac/home/esoteric> ls foo_foo__foo
foo_foo__foo

> 
> At 11:40 AM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
>> Terry Bailey wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to use either a command or batch file to change
>>> all the blanks in a file name to another character?
>>>
>>> I thought maybe sed would work, but if so, I have not been able to
>>> figure it out.
>> cat filename |tr " " "$NEWCHARACTER"
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Terry Bailey
>>>
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson