El [ Thu 12, Feb 04 - 13:08 ] , Scott Taylor expreso: > 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? Here you go, my simple aproach using the virtudes of bash scripting: -- cut -- #!/bin/bash DIR=$1 TOKEN="_" cd $DIR; # Here, we first wipe out spaces (actually, we replace them), otherwise # a name like "my tex file.tex" would produce 3 elements, "my", "tex" and "file.tex" for file in $(ls | sed -r 's/ /_:_/g'); do new_name="$(echo $file | sed -r "s/_:_/$TOKEN/g")" name="$(echo $file | sed -r 's/_:_/ /g')" if [ -f "$name" ]; then echo " Moving $name => $new_name" mv "$name" "$new_name" else echo "$file does not exists (or element was not splited correctly in command: ls | tr ' ' ':' )" fi done echo " done ..." -- /cut -- Hope you find this usefull "... Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C. ..." Rootles Root - Eric S. Raymond. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html -- Emiliano Castagnari # Debian Sarge - GNU/Linux - Athos 2.6.2 # # JID: pretorian@xxxxxxxxx # ICQ: 107462374 - Nick: mem -------------------------------------------------- - } [ Libera tu mente - Libera tu Codigo ] { - -------------------------------------------------- - : 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
