shell scripts and escaped charecters in file names

[Ronny Hippler]

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je killen wrote:
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| On Jan 14, 2006, at 11:35 PM, Ronny Hippler wrote:
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| Hello,
|     I am trying to get the following script to run with no success.
| ------------------------------------
| #!/bin/csh
| foreach file (\*vol\*)
| mv $file `basename $file .par2`.PAR2
| echo $file
| end
| ------------------------------------
| and get the following error:
| usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
| ~       mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
|
| I know it is because of the spaces and such in the file names. I have
| tried quoting single double and also escaping them but all fails. what
| is the magic? Please cc me off list. thanks!
|
|> tried %20 for space?

can't cause the file name is being inserted by a variable on the fly I
would have to do a rewrite of the filenames in the script and would need
to know all of the characters that needed to be escaped.

on that note is there a definitive list of all characters that need to
be escaped in a file name? Thanks

please cc me off list. thanks again

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