recursively changing chars in filenames

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 22:19 +0200, Soren Orel wrote:
> Thank you, but it still gives error, because I can't cd to a dir
> containing spaces, like:
> 
> cd /home/user/some dir what has spaces/something
> 

Sure you can.  Just enclose the $1 argument in your script in double
quotes.  The cd will then take it as a single argument and do the right
thing.  It is the shell that is expanding the $1 and then seeing the
whitespace as argument separators.
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