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spaces in filenames

what can i do to get rid of (or replace with an underscore) the spaces in filesnames copied from from my windows box to a linux box

TIA

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Code:

#!/bin/sh

cdir=pwd

if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then

echo $1 must be dir

exit 1

else cd "$1"

for f in $(/bin/ls * | grep " "); do

nwName=$(echo "$f" | sed -e "s/ /_/g")

mv "$f" "$nwName"

done

cd $cdir

fi

Im running Bash on Linux and Windows, so this should work crossplatform, just check before deploying it, and use quotes or backslashes when entering wintendo dirnames with spaces.
It's a kinda crude solution, but it works for me.

Save this as something like "spc2uscore.sh" and invoke with the path+dirname as the single argument, changes every filename with spaces in that dir to filenames with underscores.

HTH somehow.

thanks, i'll give it a try

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