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Karel Adams
Karel Adams

Reputation: 305

Getting rid of spaces in filenames (Unix/Linux)

The problem is well-known yet I cannot find a solution: I wish to rename directories and files, replacing the spaces by underscores. The below code does not work, for some unclear reason. This is in bash on Solaris 11.

find $BASEDIR -type d |grep ' ' | awk '{print "\"" $0 "\""}' >$TMPFIL
cat $TMPFIL | while read FILNAM ; do
 F2=$(echo $FILNAM | sed -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/\"//g')
 CMD="mv "$FILNAM" "$F2
 echo "Will execute: "$CMD
 $CMD
 done

Output looks like

Will execute: 
mv "/opt/pakket/smbdata/INTSCAN/ipmdata/Errors/Herstart 2015-01-07" /opt/pakket/smbdata/INTSCAN/ipmdata/Errors/Herstart_2015-01-07
mv: /opt/pakket/smbdata/INTSCAN/ipmdata/Errors/Herstart_2015-01-07 not found

it complains about not finding the second argument. When I copy and paste the command it generates, and launch it "manually", everything works fine, though.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 108

Answers (1)

gniourf_gniourf
gniourf_gniourf

Reputation: 46833

This should do:

find /path/to/dir -depth -name '*[[:space:]]*' -execdir bash -c 'echo mv "$0" "${0//[[:space:]]/_}"' {} \;

This will not rename anything, only show the commands that will be executed. Remove the echo in front of mv to actually perform the renaming.

If your find doesn't support -execdir (which seems to be the case on your Solaris), this should do:

find -depth -name '*[[:space:]]*' -exec bash -c 'd=${0%/*} b=${0##*/}; echo mv "$d/$b" "$d/${b//[[:space:]]/_}"' {} \;

Upvotes: 2

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