[Digikam-users] Not completely but a bit off topic question: looking for texteditor with macro capabillity

[Benjamin GIRAULT]

2011/8/28 Johnny <yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk>:
> sleepless <sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl> writes:
>
>> Hi linux people,
>>
>> I have been wrestling a bit and ran quite quick in some sort of obstacle.
>>
>> this works fine
>> mv *.* ../TEMP2/
>>
>>
>> but this one
>>  for f in $(ls); do mv ${f} ../TEMP2/; done
>>
>> does not work if you have file names with spaces.
>>
>> does that mean that for comfortable working in linux I have to rename
>> my 1 billion files to file_names_like_this.ext?
>>
>
> No, you can just use something like
> ,----
> | for f in "$(ls)"; do mv "${f} ../TEMP2/"; done
> `----
> to handle spaces.

That may not work because the second " character does not seem to be
at the right place. Try this:

,----
| for f in "$(ls)"; do mv "${f}" ../TEMP2/; done
`----

-- 
Benjamin Girault.