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replace spaces in filenames with underscores

Terminal - replace spaces in filenames with underscores
rename 'y/ /_/' *
2009-06-27 22:20:47
User: signal9
Functions: rename
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replace spaces in filenames with underscores

This command will replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory with underscores. There are other commands that do this here, but this one is the easiest and shortest.

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It should be noted that this "rename," while in Perl and portable, is not the standard rename utility on most systems.

Comment by dfego 36 weeks and 4 days ago

It depends on what you mean by "most systems." Specifically, at least under debian/ubuntu linux, on systems with perl installed, the /usr/bin/prename perl script (to which is being referred) overrides the util-linux rename command. To explicitly invoke either (again, on debian/ubuntu) the perl variant is named prename, and the util-linux (likely dfego's default) may be invoked is /usr/bin/rename.ul .

Comment by bwoodacre 36 weeks and 4 days ago

to do this purely in bash:

for file in *;do mv $file ${file// /_};done
Comment by elzapp 36 weeks and 3 days ago

Okay, not entirely purely, since the mv command is not a part of bash, but at least it would work without the rename.pl

Comment by elzapp 36 weeks and 3 days ago

Deja vu! rename overload! :-)

Doesn't anyone bother to grep the archive before posting command lines any more?

Comment by mpb 36 weeks and 3 days ago

I did grep the archive before I posted this and I did see several other commands that do the same as this one. However, this is, by far, the simplest and least complex command to date on here. So I thought I would drop it in. This is the first command I've submitted and it got into the "Hot this week" category! Yay!

Comment by signal9 35 weeks and 6 days ago

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