Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:30:44 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Rob <rob@deathbeforedecaf.net> Cc: "BigBrother (BigB3)" <bigbrother@bonbon.net>, Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces.. Message-ID: <20030109163044.GG938@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <200301091519.h09FJIK7000567@goo.0x7e.net> References: <20030108175539.W65616@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <200301091519.h09FJIK7000567@goo.0x7e.net>
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:49:18AM +1030, Rob wrote:
> > 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.
>=20
> But if you do this, won't the spaces be mistaken for filename separators?
No, he has quotes around his $file, and the `` part replaces spaces,
so this should work. Witness:
$ touch "a b" c
$ for i in *; do echo "arg $i endarg"; done
arg a b endarg
arg c endarg
Another solution is using a find & awk combo, which makes it work
recursively (ie one commandline instead of one per directory):
$ find -d . -name '* *' | awk -F/ '{ OFS =3D "/"; o =3D $0; gsub(" ", "_", =
$NF); print "mv \"" o "\" \"" $0 "\"" }' | sh
This can probably be written in a shorter way by awk gurus, I'm just
trying to learn it and this was a good exercise, which is the reason
I'm replying to this post :)
HTH,
--Stijn
--=20
The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella,
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
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