"ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

Eric Blake ericblake@comcast.net
Tue May 10 16:26:00 GMT 2005


>   mv -v "$f" " ` echo $f | tr A-Z a-z ` "

EVIL - you are moving "FOO" to " foo " (Windows strips trailing spaces, but not leading spaces, so it is really moving to " foo").  YOU ARE ADDING SPACES to the filename.  Fix your script so that there are no spaces between "` and `".

Also, as mentioned elsewhere, `ls -q' or `ls -Q' would have made this apparent.

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Eric Blake



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