mv xrags and cp

[OOzy Pal]

On 1/19/07, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
> John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> This command is good
> >>  find olddir -name '*.jpg' -exec cp {} newdir/ \;
> >>
> >> how can I make the above command rename the file in the format of
> >>
> >> date +%s%N.jpg
> >>
> >> to make sure that each file gets a unique name?
> >>
> > write a shell script around the command like...
> > for word in `find olddir -name '*.jpg'
> > do
> > ... copy command
> > done
>
> This will fail if there are filenames containing whitespaces.
>
>
>
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Thank you, no whitespaces. But what if there is? Is there a solution.

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