[wplug] Slightly off topic...shell script

Dileep Vangasseri dil5516 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 11 17:11:24 EST 2005


Hello,

I have a set of files having names which has
characters --- in between (like foo---test--to.txt). I
want to replace '---' with a '-' (single dash). Can
anyone suggest a script which would make my life
simple?

I tried:

for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr '---' '-'`;
done

But it is not taking the --- as one character. Can
anyone suggest a way out?

Regards,

Dileep


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