LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] How Can I Change the Label of My Mounted USB Flash Drive?

Looking at the man page for rename (possibly a different version than yours) the syntax is

Code:

rename from to file ...

with an example for fixing HTM to HTML files:

Code:

rename .htm .html *.htm

So I would expect that

Code:

rename file\ name file_name file\ name

might work for you -- you use the back slant to "escape" the blank in the file name.

This all assumes, of course, that you can write on the device (and I don't really know if that's possible -- try it on something you don't care about, eh).

Hope this helps some.

Just as an aside, I have this little utility that renames blanks in file name to underscores; I don't know who the author is or where I got it (sorry!), but it might be of use when dealing with Miserydos files:

Code:

cat blank-rename.sh

#!/bin/bash

ONE=1                                # For getting singular/plural right (see below).

number=0                        # Keeps track of how many files actually renamed.

FOUND=0                                # Successful return value.



for filename in *                # Traverse all files in directory.

do

    echo "$filename" | grep -q " "        #  Check whether filename

    if [ $? -eq $FOUND ]                  #+ contains space(s).

    then

      fname=$filename                      # Yes, this filename needs work.

      n=`echo $fname | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`  # Substitute underscore for blank.

      mv "$fname" "$n"                    # Do the actual renaming.

      let "number += 1"

    fi

done  



if [ "${number}" -eq "$ONE" ]                # For correct grammar.

then

        echo "${number} file renamed."

else 

        echo "${number} files renamed."

fi 



exit 0