This command will take all files and directories in a folder and replace all of the spaces in their names with hyphens. This could be a very useful command when you want the files to have sensible filenames.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ ls -hula | perl -e 'rename $_, s/\s+/-/gr for (<*>)' |
This example will replace all of the spaces in the filenames with underscores.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ ls -hula | perl -e 'rename $_, s/\s+/_/gr for (<*>)' |
Here is another method; using bash itself. Using this command: for f in *; do mv -iv "$f" "${f// /-}"; done;.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Documents/mine $ ls -hula total 8.0K drwxrwxr-x 2 john john 4.0K Feb 24 14:10 . drwxr-xr-x 10 john john 4.0K Feb 24 14:09 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this is a file with spaces2.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this is a file with spaces3.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this is a file with spaces4.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this is a file with spaces.txt john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Documents/mine $ for f in *; do mv -iv "$f" "${f// /-}"; done; `this is a file with spaces2.txt' -> `this-is-a-file-with-spaces2.txt' `this is a file with spaces3.txt' -> `this-is-a-file-with-spaces3.txt' `this is a file with spaces4.txt' -> `this-is-a-file-with-spaces4.txt' `this is a file with spaces.txt' -> `this-is-a-file-with-spaces.txt' john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Documents/mine $ ls -hula total 8.0K drwxrwxr-x 2 john john 4.0K Feb 24 14:10 . drwxr-xr-x 10 john john 4.0K Feb 24 14:09 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this-is-a-file-with-spaces2.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this-is-a-file-with-spaces3.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this-is-a-file-with-spaces4.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 24 14:10 this-is-a-file-with-spaces.txt john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Documents/mine $ |
This is how to only list directories and then rename them. But this works perfectly.
jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Documents$ ls -d */ | perl -e 'rename $_, s/\s+/_/gr for (<*>)' |
This is the directory before.
jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Documents$ ls ballgirl.webm ballreaction.webm message.txt nc nc.nasm systemd testing.c 'this is a dir ' |
And this is the directory afterwards.
jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Documents$ ls ballgirl.webm ballreaction.webm message.txt nc nc.nasm systemd testing.c this_is_a_dir_ |
This is indeed a very useful tip for Linux use.
Is there a way to just rename the directories and leave the files alone?