[CLUE-Tech] removing spaces from filenames?

[Warren Raquel]

Here's a short shell script that you can run inside the directory to take 
care of all spaces. It should convert all files and directory names with 
spaces.

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#!/bin/sh
for i in *
   do NEW=`echo $i| sed 's/ /_/g'`
   if [ "$i" != "${NEW}" ]
   then
     mv "$i" "${NEW}"
     echo "$i converted to ${NEW}"
   else
     echo 'The name is the same'
   fi
done
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At 01:14 PM 11/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a _bunch_ of files that were created on a windoze system with
>embedded spaces in their names.  Can anyone recommend a technique to
>programmatically rename the files - replacing ' ' with '_' on both the
>file and dir names?
>
>I am thinking perl, but I am not sure what sysntax I would need to use
>to search and rename.
>
>TIA
>
>aloha,
>dave
>
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