Re: Rename files

[Robert Mognet <rmgnt@surfree.com>]

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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