Does anyone know of a script or a a method I could use to read a file
and match the expression
(needs to be expanded). I have a bunch of file names which have been
condensed and spaces removed. I need to find the files in a bunch of
subdirectories - plan on using find. However, as you can see the
issue is that the "real" file name has spaces, etc.

File I have
01.2007sentPS.xls

Actual File name
01.2007\ sent\ PS.xls

In article <1179321025.540556.69320@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups. com>,
jdoe987@gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of a script or a a method I could use to read a file
> and match the expression
> (needs to be expanded). I have a bunch of file names which have been
> condensed and spaces removed. I need to find the files in a bunch of
> subdirectories - plan on using find. However, as you can see the
> issue is that the "real" file name has spaces, etc.
>
> File I have
> 01.2007sentPS.xls
>
> Actual File name
> 01.2007\ sent\ PS.xls

How is this script supposed to know where the spaces need to be added?
Is there some way it can tell that the above filename should be expanded
as you show, and not

01.200 7sentP S.xls

? If you can provide the mapping rule, we should be able to tell you
how to script it.

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