[aclug-L] Re: Working on file names

[Wayne White <WWHITE1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanx Carl, this got me on the right track. I had wanted
to replace the blank space with an underline. A little 
research on the tr command and I figured that out. Thanx
for the point in the right direction. 

Here's what worked for me...

for n in *; do mv "$n" `echo "$n" | tr " " "_" `; done

So cool, I love this linux stuff!

wayne

At 10:43 AM 03/22/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Wayne White wrote:
>
>> I need to remove the blank spaces from a bunch of file
>> names (MP3z). I know if it was a list in a text file
>> that it would be a simple thing to script bash to do it.
>> What I don't know is how to get it to work on the file
>> name themselves, or if that can even be done. Would
>> anyone like to weigh in with advice?
>
>In bash/ksh, cd to the directory containing the files, then...
>
>for n in *; do mv "$n" `echo $n |tr -d " "`; done
>
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