I got this from a friend in VA, it does the trick
find -type f | while read CURNAME
do
NEWNAME=`echo $CURNAME | tr ' ' '-'`
if [ "$NEWNAME" != "$CURNAME" ]; then
echo Do your stuff to $NEWNAME and $CURNAME
fi
done
Thanks for the responses
Carson
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Milner, Dick" <RMILNER@healthplan.com>
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:24:11 -0400
>how about:
>find -type f | tr ' ' '-' > newfilename
>
>??
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carson Wilcox [mailto:carsonwilcox@mail.arczip.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:01 AM
>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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