Tim Churches wrote:
> Simon James wrote:
>> Can any *nix aficionados give me a command to recursively search a directory
>> structure and remove the trailing spaces from any file names? Spaces within
>> the name need to remain ideally, it is just the ones at the end I want gone.
>>
>> EG
>>
>> "Saturday Night.txt " needs to become "Saturday Night.txt"
>>
>> A client has been fairly sloppy with the naming of files on his Mac which
>> handle them fine, but when he tries to backup these files to an SMB share
>> the process fails.
>
> Here is a Python script (requires Python 2.3 or later to be installed -
> see http://www.python/org ) - this is untested, so test it first and
> then uncomment the os.rename() line when you are satisfied it won't eat
> all your files for breakfast. Change the value of top to wherever in
> your filesystem you want to start - it will recurse all the way down
> under that. Provided as-is, with no warranty expressed or implied,
> absolutely no responsibility for stuff-ups or mishaps accepted.
And only work on a copy of your data, and/or take and verify a back-up
first. Precautionary principle applies!
Tim C
> #####################
> import os
>
> top = '/home/simon'
>
> for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top):
> for oldname in files:
> if oldname.endswith(' '):
> newname = os.path.join(root, oldname.rstrip())
> oldname = os.path.join(root, oldname)
> try:
> # os.rename(oldname,newname)
> print 'renamed ', oldname, '->', newname
> except:
> print 'Cannot rename ', oldname, ', non-unique?'
> ####################
>
> Tim C
>
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