[PLUG] Mass Removal of White Space in File Names

[Fred James]

Fred James wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>>    I have two directories of images where each file name has spaces 
>> between
>> the words. I'm not having success writing a shell script that takes each
>> name in sequence, removes the white spaces, and leaves the extension 
>> as-is.
>> I'm certain that this can be done in perl, python, ruby, scheme, awk, 
>> sed,
>> and so on. I believe that a shell script would be a one-liner.
>>
>>    Suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> Rich
>>   
> Rich Shepard
Offering this revised script that will produce a file containing lines 
like ...
    mv "my friend and I" myfriendandI
... this file can then be executed as a script by appending the 'sh ' 
... OK?
Regards
Fred James
> ls $ThisDir | grep -v $FileName0 > $FileName0
> while read Name
> do
>         if test ! -d "$Name"
>         then
>                 x=`echo "$Name" | awk '{print (index($0, " "))}'`
>                 if test $x -gt 0
>                 then
>                         NewName=`echo "$Name" | sed -e 's/ //g'`
>                         echo "mv \"$Name\" $NewName" > $FileName1
>                 fi
>         fi
> done < $FileName0