For single file, you can do following command; mv interview\ question.sh

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 Posted / 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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