Bash Help: Renaming all files in a Directory

[Todd Zullinger]

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Thom Paine wrote:
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>>A little while loop would be one way to do this:
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>>ls "Family Pic"*.jpg | while read i; do mv "$i" $(echo $i | tr " " _)
>>
> 
> 
> I tried this command and it gives me a> prompt and sits there. Am I
> doing something wrong?
> 
> And thanks to all the replies.

Tonight's not my night.  There should be a "; done" at the end.  As in

ls "Family Pic"*.jpg | while read i; do mv "$i" $(echo $i | tr " " _); done

But as Patrick and Mikkel pointed out, the for loop would work and
that's less typing. :)

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