[Linux-disciples] Troubles with 'rename'

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:36:42AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Imagine I have a hierarchy of directories and files, some of
> whose names contain spaces. I'd like to rename all of them,
> replacing spaces with underscores. This approach to doing so
> doesn't seem to work:
> Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

I use a little script called lr, which stands for 'lower recursive'.  You
could take out the lowercase part if you want:

#!/bin/bash
rename "tr/A-Z /a-z_/" *
for x in *
do
if [ -d "$x" ]
then
pushd "$x"
lr
popd
fi
done
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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