Comments on: Quick tip: how do you rename all files so spaces are converted to underscores?

By: Bob Jewell

Bob Jewell — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:02:58 +0000

If you had Foo and FOO in the same directory, you’d end up overwriting one of them, I believe.
You could use –backup=numbered or something like that with your move command to automatically add numbers to the files and then do a find for all numbered files and solve the errors manually in a clean way.

By: Ebrahim

Ebrahim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:21:50 +0000

In Debian:
$ rename ’s/ /_/g’ *

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:09:10 +0000

mmv doesn’t work for me in centos. What distro are you using LenZ?

By: LenZ

LenZ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:12:10 +0000

Alternatively, you could have used mmv(1):

mmv “*” “#l1″ # Make all file names lowercase
mmv “* *” “#1_#2″ # Replace blank with underscore

You may have to repeat the second step for files with multiple blanks.