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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting removing spaces in filenames Post 302469158 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 4th of November 2010 10:45:22 PM
Old 11-04-2010
This bashscript should do it. Replaces space with undscore (change to any char you want, or remove for space removal).

Code:
find . -name "*.dmp" -print | while read file
do
   mv "${file}" "${file// /_}"
done

For other shells you could do.
Code:
find . -name "*.dmp" -print | while read file
do
    new=`echo "$file" | sed 's/ /_/g'`
    mv "$file" "$new"
done

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 11-05-2010 at 12:02 AM.. Reason: Lots of edits - sorry I should test more first!
 

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