looking for script to remove spaces from filenames

[stinger30au]

i dont know if it can be done, but im chasing a script that can read a directory and read the filenames and remove all the spaces and replace the spaces with a .

example

this file needs to be changed

this.file.needs.to.be.changed


can it be done??

thanks

[Mornedhel]

When in the directory :

rename -n 's/ /./g' *

Run it (it won't rename the files yet), check that it does what it's supposed to, then run it again without the -n so it actually renames the files.

[stinger30au]

awesome.thanks

[Ms_Angel_D]

Just fyi there is a gui for renaming in synaptic, just search for pyrenamer and install. I have found it quite handy. You can also CLICK HERE to install it.

[stinger30au]

thanks for the info Angel

[sisco311]

When in the directory :

rename -n 's/ /./g' *

Run it (it won't rename the files yet), check that it does what it's supposed to, then run it again without the -n so it actually renames the files.

rename is not available everywhere.if you don't have it, a simple bash script should do the trick:

find /path/to/dir -type f -iname "* *" | \
while read file; do \
echo mv "${file}" "${file// /.}"; \
done

(remove the echo command to actually rename the files)
NOTE: find will search for files in /path/to/dir recursively.

gprename, pyrenamer, thunar (file manager) and krename are GUI renamer tools.

[Mornedhel]

rename is not available everywhere.

This is true, but it's been available out of the box in every Ubuntu since Dapper Drake at least.

[MrWES]

i dont know if it can be done, but im chasing a script that can read a directory and read the filenames and remove all the spaces and replace the spaces with a .

example

this file needs to be changed

this.file.needs.to.be.changed


can it be done??

thanks

You could also install purrr

sudo apt-get install purrr

it's a GUI batch renaming app.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/utils/purrr
It's available in both Ibex and Jaunty.

Bill

[stinger30au]

thanks all that have responded

i have got the job done in a matter of seconds now.

i was dredding renaming a few thousand files by hand

[ghostdog74]

if you have Python (2.4++), you can use the script i have (see my sig last link called File renamer)
usage

# python filerenamer.py -p " " -e "." -l "*"

remove the "-l" option to commit changes. use -h option to see more functions of the script.