[CLUE-Tech] removing spaces from filenames?

[David Anselmi]

Warren Raquel wrote:
> 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.

Well, shoot.  Since globbing seems to work better than find in a for 
loop, here's a recursive version:

>8-----cut here------>8
#!/bin/sh
for i in * ; do
   NEW=`echo $i| sed 's/ /_/g'`
   if [ "$i" != "${NEW}" ]
   then
     (cd "$i" 2>/dev/null && $0)
     mv "$i" "${NEW}"
     echo "$i converted to ${NEW}"
   else
     echo 'The name is the same'
   fi
done>8-----cut here------>8

The script has to be called with an absolute path, or it must be in your 
path.  I suppose testing that $i is a directory may be safer than just 
cd'ing to it (though the if then above isn't really necessary the same way).

Dave