Make with zsh (was: whitespace in filenames)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:24:13 +0200 Louis-David Mitterrand <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LM> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:27:38 -0700 Patrick Horgan <address@hidden> wrote: 
>> 
PH> Rinehart, Raleigh wrote:
>> >> You can do a mass rename with something like this in a bash shell 
>> >> (untested)
>> >> find . -name *.flac | while read f; do mv "$f" `echo "$f" | sed 's/
>> >> /-/g'`; done
>> >> 
PH> I love Unix:)
>> 
>> This is a bit cleaner and probably faster, since it skips files without
>> spaces in the name.  Just give it directory names as arguments.
>> 
>> perl -MFile::Find -e'find(sub { return unless m/\s/; $new = $_; $new 
>> =~s/\s+/-/g; rename $_ => $new }, @ARGV)' DIR1 DIR2 ...
>> 

LM> or if you have zsh and the 'rename' perl utility :

LM> % rename 's/\s+/-/g' **/*.flac

zsh has the zmv function which is even more appropriate, but I thought
that was too esoteric :)

Are there any caveats about using Make with zsh?  I've run into some
bash compatibility issues outside of Make, but no problems in Make itself.

Ted