Filename conversion

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, 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?

    It's easy to convert them with bash:

for file in *\ *
do
  mv "$file" "${file// /_}"
done


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