General :: Selectively Remove Blank Spaces From String?
Oct 7, 2009
need all spaces between two letters or a letter and a number exchanged for an underscore, but all spaces between a letter and other characters need to remain. One example for clarity:
Input:
force -- lamin 90 [label]
active A -- generation [label]
needed Output:
force -- lamin_90 [label]
active_A -- generation [label]
I tried solving this with sed but obviously s/ /_/g does not work, nor does any s/[a-zA-z0-9] [a-zA-z0-9]/[a-zA-z0-9]_[a-zA-z0-9]/g , because you just can't do this...
DIR=`pwd`;for i in `find . -name GESTION -type d`;do cd $i/..;setfacl -R -m g:directores:rwx, GESTION;echo $DIR'/'$i;cd $DIR;done
This code do the following actions:
1. Starting inside a folder, it's searching for any folder called "GESTION"
2. Every time a folder called "GESTION" is found, then the script move to its parent folder, and then it applies ACL permissions to the folder GESTION by using the command setfacl.
The problem is that the script doesn't works when there was found a folder with a blank space in its name. I mean:
/dir1/dir2/dir3/GESTION --> this works fine /dir1/dir2/dir 3/GESTION --> this doesn't works /dir1/dir2/dir3/2. GESTION --> this doesn't works
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mkdir "new dir" and:
touch "new file.txt"
I want to rename files from:
imgp0882.jpg to something like:
20091231 1243 some topic.jpg
And how would it look in a shell script that uses parameters like:
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Code:
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Code:
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