file renaming with spaces

[bobbyfunk]

hello there omniscienti...
in thread822-421475 there was some edifying discussion of how to create a script to batch-rename all the files in a directory from *.JPG to *.jpg. now that's close enough to what I want to do that I tried it.. i want to change the extension entirely, precisely from .rar to .cbr.
But! the problem is that some of these filenames have (gasp!) spaces in them (??!@#!@) and so the for loop variable is getting set to random words inside the names of these files. is there a super kühl way i can have the lines from the find statement go into the for assignment without getting corrupted?
I can change it to an underscore by piping it through sed s/ /_/g but then i lose the spaces. and it's kind of dirty. and plus I need to change them back (since some of the subfolder names have spaces in them) and there might be an actual _ in one of the filenames. thanks for yer ass is stance! and hey, if you need any scanned comic books...
Thanks..
-T

 

[bobbyfunk]

weeeelllll.... try not to talk to myself but hey... this actually works okay with the while loop approach, eg
find ... |while read file; do
...
done

but i'm still übercurious if there's a way to have the stuff that comes out of find be considered as a single argument to the for loop and other wee bastards.

so?

T

 

[PHV]

oldIFS="$IFS"
IFS="\n"
for ...
done
IFS="$oldIFS"

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[TonyGroves]

How about something like:
[tt]
for f in *.rar; do # for each file
f=`echo $f | sed 's/\..*//'` # strip the suffix
mv "$f" "$f.jpg" # rename the file
done
[/tt]

 

[TonyGroves]

That should of course have been:
[tt]
for f in *.rar; do # for each file
f=`echo $f | sed 's/\..*//'` # strip the suffix
mv "$f.rar" "$f.cbr" # rename the file
done