Search and Replace from bash

hammertime1983 · 11-01-2007, 08:56 PM

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to search for blank space and replace it with a comma while working from within bash, i.e. I can't open VI.

matthewg42 · 11-01-2007, 09:50 PM

Blank space in a command that you have typed or in a file?

SqdnGuns · 11-02-2007, 12:04 AM

#!/bin/bash
IFS='
'
j=`find $1 -printf "%d\n" | sort -u | tail -n 1`
j=$((j-1))
echo "Max dir depth:" $j
for (( i=0; i<=j ; i++ ))
do
for name in `find -mindepth $i -maxdepth $i -iname "* *" -printf "%p\n"`
do
newname=`echo "$name" | tr " " ","`
echo "$name" "$newname"
mv "$name" "$newname"
done
done
##########

That should do it for you. Save it as a text file, blah.sh, make it executable and run it in the directory you want. Be careful where you run it...........don't want rename any "system" files.

matthewg42 · 11-02-2007, 07:23 AM

SqdnGuns, please post code in [code] tags to improve readability.

SqdnGuns · 11-02-2007, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthewg42

SqdnGuns, please post code in [code] tags to improve readability.

Yup, I should have known better.