NICK STAFFA 361-5444 EXT. 410 (STAFFA at CLUSTER.NIEHS.NIH.GOV) wrote:
> Some older ABI sequencers make files named (e.g.)"Sample 01.Seq" on their
> Macs. Dartmouth's Fetch for some reason will copy the file to Unix and
> leave the space in the filename (It doesn't do that to VMS.).
> SeqLab chokes on such entries since space is a field delimiter in Unix
> commands.
>> Does anyone know how to doctor Fetch to always remove blanks?
> Does anyone have a script that'll remove blanks from filenames on a
> Unix System?
First, there is no problem with spaces in filenames on Unix systems.
The only thing that you have to do is to escape the space. For example:
~% touch 'with space'
~% ls -l w*
-rw-r--r-- 1 krasel users 0 Oct 1 21:58 with space
~% ls with\ space
-rw-r--r-- 1 krasel users 0 Oct 1 21:58 with space
shows two possibilities how to use a file with space in the filename.
I have no idea whether that will work with SeqLab, though.
To change filenames with spaces into filenames without spaces, do
something like the following (should work for a bash-like shell):
for i in *\ *
do
new=`echo $i|tr -d ' '`
mv $i $new
done
This will rename all files "with space" in your current directory in
"withspace". If "withspace" exists, it will be overwritten.
Hope that helps,
--Cornelius.
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