[techtalk] Removing spaces form Windows File names
karina.hould at autodesk.com
karina.hould at autodesk.com
Thu Jun 1 06:05:38 EST 2000
Hello,
thanks for the info I will try it out,
Actually what I am doing is Migrating everything to Linux, so all the
Windows File thingy's are copied over to a Linux filesystem and well I kind
of want to get rid of Windows all together.
should I change the command to something else due to the fact that my files
are on the Linux Filesystem?
I will let you know if you amazing once I try it out <Smile>
thanks
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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