Re: Maybe offtopic: Dealing with filenames with blanks in a script

[Dave Thayer <X0412021.lists.dmthayer@spamgourmet.com>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:52:22PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>  --- 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'

And, to camelCase the name you can use:
rename 's/_(.)/\u$1/g' *

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