[Linux-disciples] Troubles with 'rename'

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I know that you responded with a script, but it bugs me that
> we'd have to write a script to do recursive directory
> traversal -- that's what 'find' does. We shouldn't have to
> write that again.

Well, my script works. :)

> find . -depth -iname '*\ *' -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' '{}' \;

Hm, I'm not sure you can still guarantee that this will do things in the
right order. It also is going to run rename many more times than
necessary, since it will run it on each file. I can almost guarantee
that my script will be faster than your attempted find command on a
large directory tree.
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