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. > > 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 = "/"; o = $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
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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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