thunar rename unable to replace " ." with "."

galen · 06-01-2024, 10:17 AM

I can't get thunar to rename a list of files that contain " ."
and replace that with "."
I tried several combos, no luck

Any ideas?

scasey · 06-01-2024, 11:11 AM

Escape the source space…
(Show us what you tried, and the result, please)

DavidMcCann · 06-02-2024, 10:43 AM

A quick search turned up this command to remove spaces in file names in the current directory

Code:

for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /}"; done

which works.

replica9000 · 06-02-2024, 11:57 AM

This will replace any instance of " ." with "." in the file name in the current directory.

Code:

rename 's/ \././g' *