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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@arcor.de>
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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 05:28 -0800, brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com wrote:

> for FILE in *; do mv "$FILE" $(echo $FILE | sed 's/ /_/g'); done

This fails in a case Bob has mentioned, viz. when the
*-expanded list gets too long for the shell. 

A "simple" alternative without wildcards is, in this case,

$ ls | while read FILE; do mv "$FILE" ... ; done