Re: Stupid spaces

[Agus Budy Wuysang <fswmis@fasw.co.id>]

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

rename doesn't work like DOS' rename, but:

rename old_pattern new_pattern files...

 > 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?

If you're lucky enough to have bash V2, use (faster):

for f in *;do mv -i "$f" "${f// /}";done

otherwise:

for f in *;do mv -i "$f" "$(echo $f|tr -d ' ')";done

If your actual intention of getting rid of spaces were
to get around difficulties in shell command globbing/parsing,
you should learn more about "find -print0" & "xargs -0" instead.

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