[Linux-disciples] Troubles with 'rename'

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:14:58PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Your script's trick is to run the rename command once, on
> all the files within a given directory. I doubt it would be
> so hard to do this with 'find'. Though I'm curious. Once I
> get the find approach working, I'll do a test. If there's
> any performance hit from your script, it's that it's calling
> 'lr' recursively, which may lead to a blown stack. But
> that's probably not a huge concern.

Turns out that it's easy to do with 'find' and 'rename':

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin
find -depth -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' '{}' \;

-depth is necessary so that children get renamed before
their parents. -execdir is necessary so that find changes
into the directory before renaming it. Changing the PATH is
necessary because -execdir won't let you go until '.' is out
of the PATH.

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