Re: filename with space

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Jacky Li wrote:

I am trying to rename a bunch of files to another name. For example,

picture 1 to picture1
picture 2 to picture2
...
May I know how you can take out the space in old filename?  Thank you.

   Since you said you have a bunch of them, I suggest this:

   # for file in * ; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed 's/\ //g '` ; done

   For example:

   # ls -l
   total 8
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 21 17:56 file 2
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 21 17:56 picture 1
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 21 17:56 this is long
   # for file in * ; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed 's/\ //g '` ; done

   # ls -a
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 21 17:56 file2
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 21 17:56 picture1
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 21 17:56 thisislong
   Hope this helps.

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