On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:09:59PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines
> > with whitespaces. How can I do that?
you could try mmv
for example, if files are: foo_bar
just do
mmv "foo*bar" foo\ bar (the quotes are required)
> >
> possibly not the easiest way, but it works:
>
> for i in *; do mv "$i" "${i//_/ }"; done
>
> works only with bash 2.x (probably you have one ...).
>
> you also could try mmv, but i don't know, if it is capable of this kind of
> operations.
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