Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens

rename 's/ /-/g' *

As long as you have perl based rename. You can check: =$ rename --help Unknown option: help Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] That's the good one.

By: depesz

2010-10-23 17:03:54

rename

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Replace spaces in a file with hyphens
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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sed -i 's/ /-/g' *

j_melis · 2010-10-21 10:06:48 55
Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens

Article mentions what each part of the command is responsible for. http://raymondcrandall.com/post/1360780719/easily-renaming-lots-of-files Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
A640 French painting seventeenth century front view.jpg

becomes

A640-French-painting-seventeenth-century-front-view.jpg
```
0

for f in * ; do mv "$f" $( echo $f | tr ' ' '-' ) ; done

RaymondCrandall · 2010-10-20 20:07:33 10

What Others Think

In case you get 'Artist - Song name' turned into 'Artist---Song-name' you need to compress the extra hyphens.

karol · 755 weeks and 5 days ago

@Karol: if you want to compress (it wasn't mention in original snippet), it's trivial with rename: rename 's/[ -]+/-/g' *

depesz · 755 weeks and 5 days ago

This is really minimalistic. I like it. Just for clarification though, do all distributions have the rename command? I think I might have read somewhere how only a few did.

RaymondCrandall · 755 weeks and 5 days ago

@RaymondCrandall: on ubuntu it comes from perl package. I don't have any other distributions handy, so can't check them.

depesz · 755 weeks and 5 days ago

There are two renames I know of: one is a perl thing, the other one is in util-linux-ng (I'm using Arch Linux) - man 1 rename - much simpler than the perl one.

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What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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