Re: [MLUG] Renaming a bunch of files

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Rob Judd wrote:

>  mv "$file" "`echo $file | awk -F: '{print $NF}'`"

That is such an elegant line.  It is exactly what I tried in tcsh before I
resorted to setting a shell variable.  The problem in tcsh was that the
$NF was being treated as a variable whenever that long-second-filename-
expression was enclosed in double quotes.  I needed the double quotes to
deal with the spaces, but the double quotes messed up the $NF.  I think
the error message said that the NF variable was not defined.

I guess that's one reason why some people would say that bash is better
than tcsh.

Mike

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