How do you rename the files(*.sh) with file names containing space in it?for example "interview question.sh" needs to rename to "interview-question.sh".
Appreciate your inputs.Thanks.
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Answer / senthil m
For single file, you can do following command;
mv interview\ question.sh interview-question.sh
For multiple files on the current working folder;
for i in *\ *.sh
do
j=`echo $i|sed "s/ /-/g"`
mv "$i" $j
done
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Answer / chetan
sorry, forgot to keep the "mv" command in my last post.
for i in *.sh
do
n=`echo $i|sed 's/ /-/g'`
mv "$i" $n
done
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Answer / abc
For single file, you can do following command;
mv "interview question.sh" interview-question.sh
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Answer / indusharma5
I tried following, but it doesn't work.
find . -name "*.sh" -0 -print0| xargs -n1 -I{} -0 sh -c '`mv {} echo "{}"|sed -n 's/ /-/g'`'
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 2 Yes | 0 No |
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