rename thousands of files, spaces to underscores
Is there a one liner? They're all in one directory.
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for f in *\ *; do mv -- "$f" "${f// /_}"; done
That's bash. Run it with echo in front of mv first.
rename 's/ /_/g' * if you've got the Perl one. On Debian that's the rename package. The util-linux rename on some other distros has different arguments, and I've seen that catch people out.
bash one worked. thanks
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