Timeline for Rename files using a WHILE loop instead of a FOR loop
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 15:06 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas |
Another problem with that while loop is that mv's stdin is redirected to a pipe (which matters in case mv prompts the user).
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas |
There's also a missing -- in the OP's code.
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 15:04 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas |
Also note that read would strip the trailing G off the file name if $IFS so happened to contain G. With an unmodified $IFS, you'd have issues with leading and trailing space or tab characters (and newline with NUL delimited data). The syntax to read a line of input verbatim is IFS= read -r line
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 14:17 | history | edited | Kusalananda♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 11:58 | vote | accept | sci9 | ||
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 10:56 | history | edited | Kusalananda♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 10:50 | history | answered | Kusalananda♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |