SUMMARY: mv and file names with blank characters

Thank you all, I have no tested everything, but I will.

Ed Rollison said:
Well, at a guess you're doing something like:
for file in `ls`
do
  mv $file /target_directory/$file
done
---------that's what I do!!!

which will throw up on files with whitespace, because put very simply,
'for' uses a space
as it's field delimiter.
the trick is to add
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS="
"
at the beginning
and
IFS=$OLDIFS
at the end to avoid any possible clashes later in your script.
What this should do is mean you have a delimiter on a carriage return,
rather than a space.
Of course, for this to work with mv you'll also have to put quotes around
the file name.
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Most of you said put quotes around the name.
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Surendar Dinkar and Modrego K. said:

mv "$file" /target_directory/`echo $file|sed -e 's/ //g'`    to move them
without white spaces .
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-----Original question------------------
In a script I need to

mv $file /target_directory/$file

I am having problems with files that have white spaces on their names, how
can I move those files, or maybe better, rename them without white spaces.
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