Re: [TCLUG:18790] quick way to strip spaces...

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

David Wood <jbevren@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Brian Ackermann wrote:
> 
> > anybody got a quick way strip spaces from a filename, preferably one that
> > will do globbing and perhaps recursion?
> > 
> > I've got a whole bunch of mp3 uploaded to my new RIMPS server, from various
> > places, and I'd really like to eliminate the spaces in the names.  Rimps
> > works just fine with them, but its troublesome to me...
> 
> for i in `find -name *.mp3`; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\ /-/`; done
> 

You might get a buffer full message that way try this:
find -name *.mp3` -exec mv {} `echo {} | sed s/\ /-/`\;
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