[PLUG] File renaming scripts?

Shahms King shahms at shahms.com
Mon Nov 25 19:30:43 UTC 2002


On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 15:55, Jeff wrote:
> I need to rename several files, by replacing spaces with underscores. 
> Can someone point me in the right direction for a script that can do this?
> 
> Jeff
> 

/usr/bin/rename is in newer versions of util-linux, if it exists you can
simply run:
$ rename " " _ *\ *

to replace the spaces with underscores in all of the filenames that
contain spaces.

-- 
Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>





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