On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:27:38 -0700 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PH> Rinehart, Raleigh wrote:
>> You can do a mass rename with something like this in a bash shell (untested)
>> find . -name *.flac | while read f; do mv "$f" `echo "$f" | sed 's/
>> /-/g'`; done
>>
PH> I love Unix:)
This is a bit cleaner and probably faster, since it skips files without
spaces in the name. Just give it directory names as arguments.
perl -MFile::Find -e'find(sub { return unless m/\s/; $new = $_; $new
=~s/\s+/-/g; rename $_ => $new }, @ARGV)' DIR1 DIR2 ...
Ted
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