Re: [SLUG] A little off topic

From: awyatt@fewt.com
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 10:32:29 EDT


Probably not the most "efficient" way to do it, but here.

perl -e '@list=`ls | grep " "`;foreach $item(@list) { chomp $item; $newitem=$item;$newitem=~s/\ /-/gi;system ("mv \"$item\" \"$newitem\""); }'

You Wrote:

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:00:31 -0600
From: "Carson Wilcox" <carsonwilcox@mail.arczip.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Subject: [SLUG] A little off topic

I need to remove the spaces from all the file names in a directory.

The command:
find -type f | tr ' ' '-'

Replaces all the spaces with a '-' and prints it to stdout,
however I can't figure out how to actually rename the file.

I thought that
find -type f | tr ' ' '-' | xargs cp

might work, but that barfed all over it self, any ideas
appreciated.

Thanks,
Carson



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