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Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names?


From: Onno Benschop
Subject: Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names?
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:41:00 +0800
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On 31/03/09 19:40, Paul Fox wrote:
> i was especially pleased when i remembered that bash supports
> pattern replacement on variables.  this seems to work, so far:
>
>     renamepat='[\" \*:<>?\\|]'
>     newname=${oldname//$renamepat/_}
>   
Ooh, sexy!

Thanks!

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