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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers renaming files in the directory Post 302314787 by reborg on Sunday 10th of May 2009 07:55:34 AM
Old 05-10-2009
in bash or ksh93:
Code:
for file in * ; do 
    mv "$file" "${file// /_}"
done

Test first by inserting an echo before the mv to verify the commands it will output, also it will attempt to move all files even if they have no spaces ( but these ones will fail) so you will be able to ignore the messages like:
Code:
mv: `./a b c' and `./a b c' are the same file

 

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Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PruneFiles(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PruneFiles(3pm)

NAME

       Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PruneFiles - prune arbirary files from the dist

VERSION

       version 4.300020

SYNOPSIS

       This plugin allows you to explicitly prune some files from your distribution. You can either specify the exact set of files (with the
       "filenames" parameter) or provide the regular expressions to check (using "match").

       This is useful if another plugin (maybe a FileGatherer) adds a bunch of files, and you only want a subset of them.

       In your dist.ini:

	 [PruneFiles]
	 filename = xt/release/pod-coverage.t ; pod coverage tests are for jerks
	 filename = todo-list.txt	      ; keep our secret plans to ourselves

	 match	   = ^test_data/*
	 match	   = ^test.cvs$

ATTRIBUTES

   filenames
       This is an arrayref of filenames to be pruned from the distribution.

   matches
       This is an arrayref of regular expressions and files matching any of them, will be pruned from the distribution.

SEE ALSO

       Dist::Zilla plugins: PruneCruft, GatherDir, ManifestSkip.

AUTHOR

       Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Ricardo SIGNES.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-21				      Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PruneFiles(3pm)
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