Filename conversion

[William Park]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:47:29AM -0400, John Wildberger wrote:
> I imported from an XP OS a number of files into Linux. These files have names 
> like "Set1 001.png" with a space beteen the Set1 and 001.png. These are 
> picture files and can be displayed by by GIMP without a hitch inspite of the 
> space char.
> However, anything else I want to do with these files fails due to the presence 
> of the space. Any individual file can be renamed without problems, thereby 
> eliminating the space char. However, this is quite cumbersome if there are a 
> great number of files.
> Question: Is there an efficient way (perl  ??) to deal with this for all such  
> files in a particular directory?

Exactly what do you want to do?

    - If you want to specify spaces, then play with
	ls Set1?001.png
	ls Set1\ 001.png
	ls "Set1 001.png"
	ls 'Set1 001.png'

    - If you want to rename them, then play with
	mv 'Set1 001.png' Set1_001.png
      or use other printable character in place of space.

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