[Pdx-pm] command line question

[Eric Wilhelm]

# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Thomas J Keller
# on Monday 12 July 2004 04:24 pm:

>That doesn't work for this problem: replacing whitespace in filenames.
>But thanks.
>

?

rename 's/\s+/_/g' *

That would collapse any consecutive whitespace into a single underscore.  Did 
you want it to recurse?  If so, see:  find -name "* *" -exec <read manual>.

--Eric

>On Jul 12, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Colin Kuskie wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:10:37PM -0700, Thomas J Keller wrote:
>>> This seems like one of those easy things easier ...things
>>> I want to rename all the files in a directory substituting an
>>> underscore for any spaces in the filename. I can write a program using
>>> IO::Dir, But it seems like that should be doable from the command
>>> line.
>>> Help?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tom K.
>>
>> The original perl distribution used to include a program called rename
>> that allowed you to pass a line of perl code that would modify each
>> filename in any way you want.
>>
>> ren 'tr/ /_/;' *

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