jamescreate
jamescreate
/ gist:c70a05bb07e66e2f317f9ce34b2307d4
Created
June 1, 2017 15:26
Rename files in current directory, replacing space char with hyphen
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| ls -1 | while read file; | |
| do | |
| if [[ $file =~ " " ]]; then | |
| newname=` echo "$file" | tr ' ' '-' | tr -s '-' ` | |
| printf "Renaming %s to %s \n" "$file" "$newname" | |
| mv "$file" "$newname" | |
| fi | |
| done |