On RH, it does have a command 'rename', but not the way you used it. Just type rename ' ' '' * couple of times to get rid of all the spaces Chen On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Scott Taylor wrote: > Hello all, > > I've done this before, but so long ago I can't find it again. I have a > bunch of files with spaces in them and I want to rename them with the > spaces removed. > > I have a rename command that came with RH7.2 but doesn't do the job > rename 's/\ //g' * > does nothing in bash > > So I wrote a script many moons ago to do this but I can't remember which > server it was on, let alone how I did it. Something with tr and mv methinks. > > anyone? > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
