sorry, forgot to keep the "mv" command in my last post. for i

How do you rename the files(*.sh) with file names containing space in it?for example "interview question.sh" needs to rename to "interview-question.sh".
Appreciate your inputs.Thanks.

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Answer Posted / chetan

sorry, forgot to keep the "mv" command in my last post.

for i in *.sh
do
n=`echo $i|sed 's/ /-/g'`
mv "$i" $n
done

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