Is it possible to remove spaces

Alex_jacobson · 01-13-2005, 01:01 PM

Is it possible to remove spaces in filenames in a recursive way using a script ?

david_ross · 01-13-2005, 01:22 PM

You could use:
for file in `find ./ -type f`;do mv $file `echo $file|sed "s/ //"`;done

Alex_jacobson · 01-13-2005, 01:52 PM

Hrrm thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. Can you explain each part of your message ?

homey · 01-13-2005, 03:48 PM

It's just a little loop to go through all file names and replace any spaces with nothing.

IMHO, that would make the filenames pretty hard to read. You might be better off replacing all spaces with underscores. Those are back ticks ( ` ) and not single quotes ( ' )
Like this.....

Code:

for i in * ; do j=`echo $i | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`; mv "$i" "$j"; done

Alex_jacobson · 01-16-2005, 10:45 AM

Thanks, it works really well !