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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting removing spaces in filenames Post 302469172 by agama on Thursday 4th of November 2010 11:15:50 PM
Old 11-05-2010
If the directory contains files that don't have spaces in them, the earlier commands will generate errors as the source and destination names for the mv command will be the same and mv generally doesn't like that.

The following can be executed in a directory that has files with and without blanks in the name. It will attempt only to move the files with blanks:

Code:
find . -name "*dmp"  -exec ksh -c 'x="{}"; [[ $x == *" "* ]] &&  mv "$x" "${x// /}"' \;

This is horrible in terms of efficiency and I would do it the way Chubler_XL suggested with an additional test:

Code:
find . -name "*.dmp" -print | while read file
do
   if [[ $file == *" "* ]]
   then
       mv "${file}" "${file// /_}"
   fi
done

 

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DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)						     Debhelper						     DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)

NAME

       dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installmanpages [debhelperoptions] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package build
       directories.

       This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
       dh_installman(1) instead.

       dh_installmanpages scans the current directory and all subdirectories for filenames that look like man pages. (Note that only real files
       are looked at; symlinks are ignored.) It uses file(1) to verify that the files are in the correct format. Then, based on the files'
       extensions, it installs them into the correct man directory.

       All filenames specified as parameters will be skipped by dh_installmanpages.  This is useful if by default it installs some man pages that
       you do not want to be installed.

       After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check to see if any of the man pages are .so links. If so, it changes them to
       symlinks.

OPTIONS

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	   Do not install these files as man pages, even if they look like valid man pages.

BUGS

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       pages belong in. This is almost never what you really want (use -p to work around this, or use the much better dh_installman(1) program
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SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

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