Are you sure that the filename has a trailing space or is it a space
before the hidden .extension.
I tried adding spaces to several files with recognised extensions and
the filesystem added the extension back again!
so
20.pdf+<spc>
became
20.pdf<spc>.pdf
similar with .doc
(You could try the freeware/donationware app called "r-name" if
complicated command line *nix syntax drives you nuts.)
Ian
At 8:17 pm +1100 7/3/07, Simon James wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:01, 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.
file names in all Unix file systems I know of CANNOT have trailing spaces
What file system are you working with?
OS X. It's GUI too nice for its own good in this case (though via terminal
it doesn't allow you to make such file names). It doesn't prevent "/" being
used either, which as you would know can cause major problems when FTP or
terminal commands come into play.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Simon
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