25 Sep
2010
25 Sep
'10
8:49 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robin Gareus <robin@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