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Old 08-31-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmedwaseem2000 View Post
Try This:

Code:
find . -name "*" | sed '1,$s/ /\-/g; s/\-\-/\-/g'
Waseem,

This will not rename the file. Option is to write a script with a combination of find ,sed and mv command.

Cheers,
K