Unix Tip #4315- January 3, 2024


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SPACES TO UNDERSORE 1 LINER


Do you hate users who put spaces in file names, preventing
you from doing any sort of scripting?

Well then this is the little one-liner for you to pop in a
shell script then...

for i in $1 ; do mv "$i" `echo $i | sed 's/ /_/g'` ; done

the echo $i | sed 's/ /_/g' is surrounded by back-tics not
regular quotes.


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