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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

Terminal - Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.
rename 's/ /_/g' *
2011-07-04 06:21:27
User: twjolson
Functions: rename
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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.
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rename 'y/ /_/' *
2009-06-27 22:20:47
User: signal9
Functions: rename
Tags: file 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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for file in *; do mv -v "$file" "$(sed 's/ //g' <(echo $file))"; done
2011-07-10 21:08:31
User: laebshade
Functions: file mv
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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

This is a better version, as it does no command piping, uses for instead of while loops, which allows for a list of files in the current working directory to be natively processed. It also uses the -v/verbose option with mv to let you know what the command is doing.

While the command does exactly the same in a better way, I would modify the sed option to replace spaces with underscores instead, or dashes.

Please note that you'll receive errors with this command as it tries to rename files that don't even have spaces.

This is an alternative to: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8761/renames-all-files-in-the-current-directory-such-that-the-new-file-contains-no-space-characters.

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find ./ $1 -name "* *" | while read a ; do mv "${a}" "${a//\ /_}" ; done
2011-07-04 08:40:34
User: mamue
Functions: find mv read
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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

Replaces space in a file with a underline

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ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ //g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done
2011-07-03 04:02:48
User: ddc
Functions: echo ls mv read sed
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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

File names with spaces may cause problems, this command could help to avoid that.

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ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ //g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done
2011-07-03 04:02:48
User: ddc
Functions: echo ls mv read sed
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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

File names with spaces may cause problems, this command could help to avoid that.

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This depends on the Perl 'prename' command to be installed -- popular on Debian-based distributions, where /usr/bin/rename is a link to this file. The more common POSIX version of 'rename' doesn't do regular expressions, only one-time substring matches. 'rename oldstring newstring list_of_files' I.E.:

rename .htm .html *.htm
Comment by Mozai 46 weeks and 4 days ago

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