[ale] editing variables in bash (or shell)

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
>> To do that, I need to create a variable dest_file_name that takes the
>> '/' and replaces them with '-' chars.  I know you can do that in the
>> shell, but I've forgotten how.
> 
> 
> How about a single for script to do it all?
> 
> Set DIR and PATTERN appropriately...
> 
> for fn in $(find DIR -name PATTERN -print); do
> print cp $fn $(echo $fn|tr '/' '-')
> done


Oops, remove the 'print' before the 'cp'... that's my test script...


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Until later, Geoffrey