Not long ago, Alec Shaw proclaimed... > Every so often I have files with spaces in their names and I want to > rename them with underscores for the spaces. > The way I have normally done the the renaming is by putting the output > of an ls into a file and editing the file in vim > to make it into a script. > I usually do ":g/.*/s//mv & &/ " and then hand editing the paces to > underscores in the third column. > There has to be a better way. > Is it possible to have vim do the substitution on the third column > without affecting the first column? > Actually as I think about it maybe a bash or ksh (after years of use ksh > is still my preferred shell) script > would be better. Maybe a "for f in *; do mv $f $g; done" but how do I > get $g from $f with spaces substituted? > > Thanks for any suggestions. > Alec Shaw
I use the rename command for this. The syntax is: rename FROM TO FILE... So, for this example: rename ' ' _ * /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
