replacing all spaces in filenames of a directory

merlin23 · 01-11-2005, 06:20 AM

has anyone an idea which would be the best way to replace all spaces in the all filenames of a directory?
There are many thousands of files in many directories and I want to go recursive through them...
I think maybe somehow with the find - command mixed up with some regular experssion?

Would be nice to get somenice hint

tx in regards..

zeropash · 01-11-2005, 07:52 AM

$ cat /tmp/t
src="$1"
dst=`echo "$1" | tr ' ' '_'`
if [ "$src" != "$dst" ]; then
mv "$src" "$dst"
fi

$ find /home/zeropash -exec /tmp/t \{\} \;

This would replace all the spaces with _
if you have tabs etc use [:space:] for tr
does this help?