RE: [SLUG] A little off topic

From: Milner, Dick (RMILNER@healthplan.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 10:24:11 EDT


how about:
find -type f | tr ' ' '-' > newfilename

??

-----Original Message-----
From: Carson Wilcox [mailto:carsonwilcox@mail.arczip.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:01 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] A little off topic

I need to remove the spaces from all the file names in a directory.

The command:
        find -type f | tr ' ' '-'

Replaces all the spaces with a '-' and prints it to stdout,
however I can't figure out how to actually rename the file.

I thought that
        find -type f | tr ' ' '-' | xargs cp

might work, but that barfed all over it self, any ideas
appreciated.

Thanks,
Carson



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