Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:41:26 +0200 (EET) From: "BigBrother (BigB3)" <bigbrother@bonbon.net> To: Rob <rob@deathbeforedecaf.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces.. Message-ID: <20030109173758.H65616@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> In-Reply-To: <200301091519.h09FJIK7000567@goo.0x7e.net> References: <1042068862.1441.3.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com>, <20030108175539.W65616@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <200301091519.h09FJIK7000567@goo.0x7e.net>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Rob wrote:
> > > Sorry for this OT but I am trying for some hours to achieve a massive
> > > rename of files using a simple script and I have not success yet. I want
> > > to rename files like
> > >
> > > "RESULTS OF JAN 01 2002.txt "
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > "RESULTS_OF_JAN_01_2002.txt"
> > >
> > > i.e. all the spaces, being substituted by '_', and the last space being
> > > completely removed [yes it has a space after the suffix]
> > > I tried to experiment with sed/awk and creating a sample sh script with
> > > for i in 'ls' ....
> > >
> > > but the i takes values of 'RESULTS' 'OF' 'JAN'. This means that it doesnt
> > > take the full filename as value, but parts of the filenames.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can u please suggest an easy way to implement the massive rename?
> > >
> >
> > If you want to do it for all files in a directory:
> >
> > # for file in *; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; done
> >
> > should do the trick. I think Perl is overkill for something this simple.
> > Someone else suggested tr, which probably works, but I've had more
> > success with sed.
>
> But if you do this, won't the spaces be mistaken for filename separators?
>
> Try this instead - make sure you're using sh, not csh:
>
> ls *\ * | while read OLD ; do
> NEW=`echo $OLD | tr ' ' _`
> echo mv -i $OLD $NEW
> done
>
> This works because ls prints them on separate lines. Once you're sure that it
> will do the right thing, take out the echo and run it for real.
>
> If the files are all over the place, you can use find the same way:
>
> find * -name '* *' -type f | while read OLD ; do
> NEW=`echo $OLD | tr ' ' _`
> echo mv -i $OLD $NEW
> done
>
> You'll have to fix the directories separately (otherwise find gets lost).
>
>
Thank you all for your quick reply.
I followed Rob's way and it was fairly easy to do. I had to change a bit
something but it worked.
The rename script that I used is:
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#!/bin/sh
ls *\ * | while read OLD ; do
NEW=`echo $OLD | tr ' ' _`
mv -i "$OLD" $NEW
done
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As u notice I had to add the semicolon " " in the $OLD variable because
otherwise the mv was complaining. So this was a nice and fast way to do
it. Thank you all people for your quick reply!!
BigBrother
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