The attached rename.pl is invaluable for such tasks. Use it exactly like your bash rename attempt. You can use pretty much any perl in-place-modifier construct - s/X/Y/, tr/A-Z/a-z/ (upper->lower), etc. Not sure where I found this originally, but it's extremely handy. Al Scott Taylor wrote: > Hello all, > > I've done this before, but so long ago I can't find it again. I have > a bunch of files with spaces in them and I want to rename them with > the spaces removed. > > I have a rename command that came with RH7.2 but doesn't do the job > rename 's/\ //g' * > does nothing in bash > > So I wrote a script many moons ago to do this but I can't remember > which server it was on, let alone how I did it. Something with tr and > mv methinks. > > anyone? > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Alok K. Dhir Symplicity Corporation http://solutions.symplicity.com 703 351 6987 (w) | 703 351-6357 (f)