-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Doyle wrote: >>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 The spaces in the file names will make this fail. The loop will split the files at the spaces, so you'd end up with f=Family, then f=Pic, etc. You can muck around with the IFS variable, but to me it always seems easier to just use a while loop instead. :) - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos ... then you probably haven't completely understood the situation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iG0EARECAC0FAkTBavwmGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cucG9ib3guY29tL350bXovcGdwL3Rt ei5hc2MACgkQuv+09NZUB1ocYgCg3HNa4Jy8HvN77D3t8Xm7VssAdLoAoIbGz7qy MStbWwmTPLpNz5n4YicR =vt2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
