find(1) behaving strange or do I miss something

[Ariel Burbaickij]

Yeap, works fine. Many thanks.
> Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > following situation:
> > I hate white spaces in file and cranked tiny bashscript for replacing
> > them that goes like this:
> > for i in `find . -type f`
> > do
> > mv $i /some_directory/`echo $i|sed 's/ /_/g'`
> > done
> >
> > On this I get complaints from mv that it cannot find files that are
> > basically parts of the
> > name with spaces like this:
> > [snip]
>
> Not that this has anything to do with Cygwin, but...
> well, yes, because bash is splitting at whitespace :-).
>
> You probably want something like this:
> find <args> | while read i ; do mv "$i" "${i// /_}" ; done
>
> (note that "$i" must be quoted also!)
>
> --
> Matthew
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