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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove trailing space from file and folder names Post 302913037 by vipertech on Wednesday 13th of August 2014 12:39:31 PM
Old 08-13-2014
RudiC, thank you for the response. My apologies for forgetting the code. Didn't think it was necessary for just folder name examples.

I want to be able to parse through a folder, find all subdirectories and files under that folder that might have a trailing space and then remove that trailing space. So the script would basically be a rename script.

So far, I managed to successfully use a script that either renames the file or folder via replacing spaces with underscores or removing all of the spaces. I want to rename all found files and folders and only remove any trailing spaces.
 

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NAME

       file-roller - archive manager for GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       file-roller [OPTIONS...]  [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

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OPTIONS

       -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE
	      Add files to the specified archive and quit the program

       -d, --add FILE
	      Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program

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	      Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program

       -h, --extract-here
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SEE ALSO

       gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

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