How to access files/directories with spaces in the name?
To access a directory having space in between the name use \<space>
to access it. You can also use Tab button to auto completion of name.
For example :
guru@guru-Aspire-5738:~$ cd /media/Data/My\ Data/
guru@guru-Aspire-5738:/media/Data/My Data$.
To to use files with spaces you can either use the escape character or youse the double quotes.
example:
cd new\ dir/
\
is called escape character, used to not expansion of space, so now bash read the space as part of file name.
Or you can use:
cd "new dir"
Now to rename files, it's so easy to rename all files with spaces and replace space with underscore:
for file in * ; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}" ; done
look at answer here there is a script to rename all files and dirs recursively.
The script is:(All rights go to its owner)
#!/bin/bash
# set -o xtrace # uncomment for debugging
declare weirdchars=" &\'"
function normalise_and_rename() {
declare -a list=("${!1}")
for fileordir in "${list[@]}";
do
newname="${fileordir//[${weirdchars}]/_}"
[[ ! -a "$newname" ]] && \
mv "$fileordir" "$newname" || \
echo "Skipping existing file, $newname."
done
}
declare -a dirs files
while IFS= read -r -d '' dir; do
dirs+=("$dir")
done < <(find -type d -print0 | sort -z)
normalise_and_rename dirs[@]
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
files+=("$file")
done < <(find -type f -print0 | sort -z)
normalise_and_rename files[@]