Re: Stupid spaces

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At 08:07 PM 02/12/2004, Emiliano Castagnari wrote:
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:

Interesting. Only it doesn't "remove" the spaces it simply replaces them with something else.



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