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How can I mass rename files in Linux containing spaces? [duplicate]
I want to rename all of the pdf files that contains spaces by replacing them by underscores.
So I invoke the command:
ls *.pdf | sed -e 'p; s/" "/_/' | xargs -n2 mv
and I got errors on the terminal:
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Eliminate spaces in filename and rename (cywgin) [duplicate]
I use cygwin on top of windows.
I have a windows file that contains files with spaces. I want to get rid of the spaces between the characters and rename the files.
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In bash, is there a better solution for iterating through a directory and modifying a single character in some folders? [duplicate]
On Bash, I used the following script to replace the empty spaces in some directories with an underscore:
for dir in */; do
mv "${dir}" "${dir// /_}"
done
This did the trick but ...
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rename files with one single command [duplicate]
I want to rename all files ( could be also one file ) under dir directory so each file under dir will added with the name “old_” before each file
Remark – I can do the rename with loop and mv each ...
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How can I make the "find" Command on OS X default to the current directory?
I am a heavy command line user and use the find command extensively in my build system scripts. However on Mac OS X when I am not concentrating I often get output like this:
$ find -name \*.plist
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mv a file that contains spaces from a shell script
I am trying to mv a file (rename it to replace spaces with dashes). If I pass the source and dest arguments without quotes, the source is broken up because mv thinks it is the end of the argument.
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git clone succeeded, but checkout failed; due to folders having leading or trailing spaces
I usually commit to a project from a macOS, and I didn't notice that leading and trailing space were embedded accidentally in folder names, but lately I tried to clone the repo from Windows,
I get ...
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Remove space before filename and folders recursively
I'm currently moving content from an old xServe to a Synology NAS and the client decided 10 years ago to add one or more spaces before filenames and folders to make them appear higher up in the tree.
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Using Bash to replace DOTS or characters in DIRECTORY / SUBDIRECTORY names
I have searched looking for the right solution. I have found some close examples.Bash script to replace spaces in file names
But what I'm looking for is how to replace multiple .dots in current ...
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Replace multiple underscores in filename using bash script
Doing some reading here and here I found this solution to replace two underscores in filenames with only one using bash:
for file in *; do
f=${file//__/_}
echo $f
done;
However how do I most ...
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Using Perl-based rename command with find in Bash
I just stumbled upon Perl today while playing around with Bash scripting. When I tried to remove blank spaces in multiple file names, I found this post, which helped me a lot.
After a lot of ...
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Using command Output (with spaces) as other command Input (BASH)
Any one know why this works?
cat `echo "FilenameWithoutSpaces.txt"` # shows file content
stdout:
SHOW FILE CONTENT
And this not?
cat `echo "Filename\ With\ Spaces.txt"` # trying ...
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Convert list of jpegs to pdf in bash
I want to convert a bunch of jpeg files to one pdf file. The files are in a numbered format:
gls -v 2014-2015-2016_R_TR-4_all_170213*.jpeg
gives:
'2014-2015-2016_R_TR-4_all_170213 1.jpeg'
'2014-...
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Can someone please explain this working Bash code?
Naidim answered this question:
How to replace spaces in file names using a bash script
This was the only answer I could get to work for me, but I don't understand what I am looking at.
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Imgopt can't optimize file with whitespace in the name
Hy,
I'm trying to optimize the uploaded pictures on my webserver, with imgopt. The problem is that, when it finds a file with whitespace in the name, it throw error like that:
$imgopt file - name....
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