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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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lltag_formats

lltag_formats(5)						File Formats Manual						  lltag_formats(5)

NAME

       formats - Internal formats database file for lltag

DESCRIPTION

       The  internal format database is usually stored in /etc/lltag/formats.  The user may override this file by defining a $HOME/.lltag/formats.
       If this file exists, the system-wide one is ignored.

       These files contain entries starting with a line such as:

       [%n - %a - %t]
	      A title between bracket that will be displayed at runtime.

       Then, the following 3 lines must be given to explain how the format is actually used to parse filenames:

       type = basename
	      The type is either basename (to parse the last part of the path to a file) or path (to parse the directory part of  the  path  to  a
	      file).   When actually parsing the path to target files, basename and path parsers will be assembled.  All possible combination will
	      be tried.

       regexp = %L%N%S-%S%A%S-%S%A%L
	      A string composed of any characters, with the following special fields:

	      %L for delimiter (empty by default, multiple spaces if --spaces was given)

	      %S for a space (or multiple spaces if --spaces was given)

	      %N for numbers

	      %A for an alphanumeric string without /

	      %P for any path (alphanumeric string with /)

	      %% for %

       indices = NUMBER,ARTIST,TITLE
	      A list of fields to match (either given by their full name or associated letter) corresponding to each %N or %A field in the  previ-
	      ous  format.   It  may be AUTHOR (or a), ALBUM (A), GENRE (g), NUMBER (n), TITLE (t), DATE (d), COMMENT (c) or IGNORE (i).  See also
	      FORMAT in the manpage of lltag for details about these fields.

SEE ALSO

       lltag(1)

AUTHOR

       Brice Goglin

								   NOVEMBER 2006						  lltag_formats(5)
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