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
rename doesn't work like DOS' rename, but:
rename old_pattern new_pattern files...
> 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?
If you're lucky enough to have bash V2, use (faster):
for f in *;do mv -i "$f" "${f// /}";done
otherwise:
for f in *;do mv -i "$f" "$(echo $f|tr -d ' ')";done
If your actual intention of getting rid of spaces were to get around difficulties in shell command globbing/parsing, you should learn more about "find -print0" & "xargs -0" instead.
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