[CLUE-Tech] removing spaces from filenames?

[Keith Hellman]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:14:22PM -0700, Dave Price wrote:
> 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?

The attached shell script works for me; it pumps out commands to stdout 
so you can see what would happen first...

$cd LOTS_OF_WHITESPACE_TREE
$remove_ws_tree
<< review output >>
$remove_ws_tree |sh

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#!/bin/bash

function nows()
{
	D=$(dirname "$1")
	B=$(basename "$1")
	N="${B// /_}"
	if test "$B" != "$N" ; then
		echo "( cd '$D' && mv " "'$B'" "'$N' )"
	fi
}

case "$1" in 
	file )
			nows "$2"
			;;
	dir )
			# rename all entries
			find "$2" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec ${0} file '{}' \;
			;;
	"" )	
			find ./ -depth -type d -exec ${0} dir '{}' \;
			;;

esac