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Bulk renaming of camelcase files to include spaces

I'm attempting a batch rename of camelcase-named files to include spaces between adjacent upper and lower case leters. I'm using Mac OS so the utils I'm using are the BSD-variant.

For example:

250 - ErosPhiliaAgape.mp3 => 250 - Eros Philia Agape.mp3

I'm trying to find the relevant files and pipe them to mv which runs sed in a subshell, using this command:

find . -name "*[a-z][A-Z]*" -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} "$(sed -E 's/([a-z])([A-Z])/\1 \2/g')"

Individually, these commands work fine: find pulls up the correct files and sed renames it correctly, but when I combine them with xargs, nothing happens.

What do I need to change to make this work?


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