LINUX ADMINISTRATION NOTES & CODE SNIPPETS

Some Linux tools does not properly work with files which include spaces in their names. This simple bash for loop will remove white space from file names and rename/move for all files in the given directory.

First enter directory with cd:

cd /my/directory

and then run:

for f in *; do mv "$f" `echo $f | tr ' ' '_'`; done

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