[plug] Remove first sp[ac]e in a filename

[Christian Müller]

Thanks for that everyone, that worked very well. Guess I should learn a bit 
of Perl now :)

Christian

At 13:46 11/07/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
>
>>for i in * ; do
>>         h=`echo $i | sed -e s/^ //`
>>         if [ "$i != "$h" ] ; then
>>                 echo moving \"$i\" to \"$h\"
>>                 #mv $i $h
>>         else
>>                 echo skipping $i
>>         fi
>>done
>
>
>for i in \ *; do mv -v "$i" "$(echo $i|sed -e 's/^ //')"; done
>
>Does the following:
>
>   * only treats files with leading spaces
>   * doesn't strip embedded spaces
>   * works everywhere (else the leading space gets stripped B4 the mv)
>                      (and filenames with embedded funnies break also)
>
>  * has no hanging strings (unbalanced quotes)
>
>   * fails if a filename contains a double-quote symbol
>
>Sorry, I've been (full disclosure: am) really busy, and then sick, and now 
>both else I would have turned up last night. It sounded interesting.
>
>Cheers.
>
>
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