[LAU] No batch processing on Linux?

[Marc Groenewegen]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robin Gareus <robin at xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 > ..and in case there are files with whitespaces in the filename, change
 > the default string separator:
 >
 > #/bin/bash
 > IFS=:
 > # do stuff
 > unset IFS

Or remove spaces from all filenames. Why would one want spaces in filenames anyway ?
To me it feels a bit like putting spaces in variable names, which isn't a good idea either.

Cheers,
Marc


#! /bin/bash
#
# spaces2underscores.sh

echo
echo "This command changes all spaces in file names into underscores"
echo "  for ALL FILES IN THIS DIRECTORY !"
echo "  Type ENTER to continue or ^C to quit"

read dummy

for f in *; do
   oldname=`echo $f |sed 's/ /~/g'`
   newname=`echo $f |sed 's/ /_/g'`
   if [ $oldname != $newname ]
   then
     echo mv $f $newname
     mv "$f" $newname
   fi
done