You need to escape or quote the entries:<br><br>for f in *.PDF<br>do<br> base=`basename "${f} .PDF`<br> mv "${f}" "${base}.pdf"<br>done<br><br>That works fine for me.<br><br>Wing.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Charles Howse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chowse@charter.net">chowse@charter.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
I need to batch rename all files with extension .PDF to extension .pdf.<br>
They may or may not have spaces in the filenames.<br>
<br>
The following works ONLY if there are no spaces in the filename:<br>
<br>
for f in *.PDF; do<br>
base=`basename $f .PDF`<br>
mv $f $base.pdf<br>
done<br>
<br>
Can anyone provide a tip to something that will work regardless of whether there are spaces in the filenames or not?<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Thanks,<br>
Charles<br>
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