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nikos
nikos

Reputation: 115

How to replace all white spaces in file names in GCP Cloud Storage?

I have a bucket on GCP cloud storage and I want to rename all files that have a white space in their filename to the name where the whitespace is removed by a hyphen (-).

I tried something like

gsutil ls gs://<bucket>/<folder_with_the_files_to_rename>/ | sed 's/ /-/g/gsutil mv & \1/'

Unfortunately, I cant get the sed command work to replace the whitespace and then use the gsutil mv command to actually rename the file.

Can someone help me?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1832

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 627101

If you need to replace any space with - in some file names that you get with gsutil ls gs://<bucket>/<folder_with_the_files_to_rename>/, you can use

gsutil ls gs://<bucket>/<folder_with_the_files_to_rename>/ | \
  while read f; do
    gsutil -m mv "$f" "${f// /-}";
  done;

gsutil mv command moves/renames files, and ${f// /-} is a variable expansion syntax where each space is replaced with - (the // stands for all occurrences). Thus, you do not need sed here.

Upvotes: 6

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