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Replace spaces recursively
Hi,
I have a directory with files and sub-directories (sub-directory depth might go upto 5). There will be one or more spaces (continuously or anywhere in the file name) which need to be replaced with HYPHENs. How can i replace all SPACE occurances with HYPHEN in file/dir names recursively. (2 or more continuous occurances of SPACES should be replaced with SINGLE HYPHEN). Thanks Prvn |
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Try This:
Code:
find . -name "*" | sed '1,$s/ /\-/g; s/\-\-/\-/g' |
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This will not rename the file. Option is to write a script with a combination of find ,sed and mv command. Cheers, K |
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Thannks kamitsin and Waseem.
Kamitsin, yours offer recursive solution and yes, i will use mv to achieve the rest. I need small addon to my requirement (sorry, i did not mention earlier) that LEADING and TRAILING spaces should be removed (not to be replaced with HYPHEN). In other words, file/dir names should not start/end with HYPHENS e.g. if a file with name " m n " to become "m-n". Txs Prvn |
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If you have Python and is able to use it as an alternative:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os,re
for root,dir,files in os.walk("/test"):
for fi in files:
if fi.count(" ")>0:
fi=fi.strip()
newfile = os.path.join(root,re.sub("\s+","-",fi))
os.rename(os.path.join(root,fi),newfile)
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