On 7/21/06, Thom Paine <painethom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm making a digital picture frame out of an old laptop and the pic viewer doesn't support filenames with spaces in them. Is there a quick command I can type to process all files in a directory that will rename the files from "Family Pic 001.jpg" to "FamilyPic001.jpg"?
Off the top of my head... $ for f in *.jpg; do; mv $f `echo $f | sed 's/ //g'`; done (Be careful about the back (single) quotes and the forward single quotes. BTW, when I write little shell ditties like this, I usually starft with: $ for f in *.jpg; do; echo mv $f `echo $f | sed 's/ //g'`; done (Notice the "echo" command conveniently placed to avoid actually doing anything.) Also, I usually try the command on a _copy_ of my original directory (cp -a old_dir new_dir) first, just in case... hth --wpd
