Re: Maybe offtopic: Dealing with filenames with blanks in a script
--- Dave Thorn <davet@fysh.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:05:59PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> >
> > Does that mean I could have a script to convert all those horrible
> > filenames people give you from the dark side - the ones like
> > "Some Thoughts About Your Proposition.doc". A simple script to
> replace
> > all the spaces with underscores.
Something like this:
rename 's/ /_/g' *
Of course, to be more thorough:
find . -type -f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rename's/ /_/g'
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