[techtalk] Removing spaces form Windows File names

[karina.hould at autodesk.com]

Jeff, 

Well I must be doing something wrong, it is telling me 

find: missing argument to '-exec'
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unknown option to 's'

I appreciate your help on this, 

I know that Gnome has no problem reading the spaces in the file names. so it
is not so urgent, only the Directories with spaces are a problem.

thanks again

Karina


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Dike [mailto:jdike at karaya.com]
Sent: June 01, 2000 09:52
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Removing spaces form Windows File names 


karina.hould at autodesk.com said:
> Is there a file I can create that will do this? I am not a programmer,
> so I have limited knowledge in creating files but I can sure try...

> Any help you could provide would be amazing. 

I don't think I could pass up a chance to be amazing :-)

find /dos -name "* *" -exec sh -c 'echo {} | (read f ; mv "$f" `echo $f |
sed 
"s/ //g"`)' \;

ought to do the trick, assuming all those files are under /dos.  It does
give 
me a find error on one file in my test directory, but the move happened.  It

was also harder than I expected.

However, I don't think you should do this without explaining why you think
you 
need to.  Did some window-y thing dump a bunch of spacey filenames into your

Linux filesystem or are you trying to change all the spacey filenames on a 
windows filesystem?

				Jeff




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