Say a directory contains files
1) "file name 1.xxx"
2) "file name2.yyy"
3) etc

Using a cshell script, is there a way to (1)search for all files that contain " " in the filename and then (2)rename the files so that you replace the whiitespace " " with a "_".

First problem I run into is when I put "file name 1.xxx" into a list contianing other filenames with spaces each word seperated by a space is treated as a seperate element when used in a foreach loop. Instead of getting "file name 1.xxx" as an element I get 1) "file" 2) "name" 3) "1.xxx".

Example:

set list = `find -type d -name '* *' | tr -d "./"`
foreach i ( $list )
set newfile = `echo $file | sed 's/ /_/' `
mv $i $newfile
end

Second problem, let's assume the $i contained the directory/file name string "file name 1.xxx". If we were to use $i in a mv statement such as

mv $i $newfile

the mv would interpret "file name 1.xxx" as three seperate files 1) "file" 2) "name" 3) "1.xxx" . mv would attempt to mv 3 files into $newfile. Of course this is not what we want. We would like to rename the file named "file name 1.xxx" to a newfile name.

mv "file name 1.xxx" to file_name_1.xxx

It is easy enough at the command line. But it becomes a tedious task when you have many files/directories that you have to rename. It would be nice to do it with a script but I am at a lost. It kills me that I am actually considering doing this by hand. What a waste of time. Spaces in file/directory names are a _itch.

Thanks
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