Re: Naming files

From: scriptOmatic (ScriptOmatic_at_ChironComputing.Com)
Date: 05/01/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:45:13 GMT

Phil wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following simple script for cleaning up filenames but it
> doesn't seem to work:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for F in $@
> do
> $NEW=`echo "$F" | sed -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/[(|)]//g' -e 's/[,|!|-|(|)]//g'`
> echo "$NEW"
> done
>
> It seems to print out the spaced words line by line. Am I using in proper
> quoting?
>
> Thanks allot
> Phil Jackson
> --
> Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

NEW=` ....
not $NEW

also

Seems you are using the pipe bar to mean or in te sed commands.
They are not needed, [()] means "(" or ")" 

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