Bash Help: Renaming all files in a Directory

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> Off the top of my head...
>>> $ for f in *.jpg; do; mv $f `echo $f | sed 's/ //g'`; done
> 
> The spaces in the file names will make this fail.  The loop will split
> the files at the spaces, so you'd end up with f=Family, then f=Pic,
> etc.  You can muck around with the IFS variable, but to me it always
> seems easier to just use a while loop instead. :)
> 
No, the loop will have f=Family Pic 001.jpg but the mv command will
fail unless you use "$f" because mv will see it as 3 file names,
split at the spaces.

[mikkel backup]$ ls G*
Giraffe High Score.prc  Graffiti.prc  Graffiti ShortCuts .prc
[mikkel backup]$ for f in G* ; do echo $f ; done
Giraffe High Score.prc
Graffiti.prc
Graffiti ShortCuts .prc

Mikkel
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