Milner, Dick wrote:
> 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
No, this should just create a text file which contains the new names.
--ronan
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