Shell script confusion.

[lugoteehalt]

Not the greatest shell scripter.

This script does not work:

#! /bin/bash
# Remove spaces from filenames and replace with underscores.

echo "$1 is " $1
fileName=`echo "$1"|sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
echo "fileName = " $fileName
rename -v 's/ /_/g' $fileName

unset fileName
exit=0

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"rmspace.sh" 11L, 212C                                        11,0-1        All

The output is:

$ rmspace.sh ~/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine\ Nation\ -\ FULL\ LENGTH.flv 
/home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine Nation - FULL LENGTH.flv is  /home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine Nation - FULL LENGTH.flv
fileName =  /home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine Nation - FULL LENGTH.flv
$

rename is not working.

$ echo "/home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine Nation - FULL LENGTH.flv" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'
/home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine\ Nation\ -\ FULL\ LENGTH.flv
$

$ rename -v 's/ /_/g' ~/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine\ Nation\ -\ FULL\ LENGTH.flv 
/home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine Nation - FULL LENGTH.flv renamed as /home/lugo/Videos/Medicine/Vaccine_Nation_-_FULL_LENGTH.flv
$

Thanks any help.

[kurtdriver]

Does this work for you?

for i in *\ *
do
mv "$i" "${i// /_}"
done

If you want to do one at a time you could just use the third line and replace the two letters i with a 1.

[PairOfBlanks2]

Replace: fileName=`echo "$1"|sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
With: fileName=`echo "$1"|sed 's/ /_/g'`

and

Replace: rename -v 's/ /_/g' $fileName
With: rename $1 $fileName $1

[kurtdriver]

Why not just run sed on $1 directly, without piping it through echo?

[Avanesov]

I have a script posted in the opensuse forums that will do what you want with little or no editing I think.
Post # 11 has the last version I left off with, it appears to work correctly but has not been extensively tested. I suggest you make a test run first.

It wont let me post a url yet so:
h-t-t-p-://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/457475-can-you-recommend-me-script-app.html#post2324828

[lugoteehalt]

Thanks all. Just got it to work:

#! /bin/bash
# Remove spaces from filenames and replace with underscores.

echo "$1 is " $1
#fileName=$(echo $1|sed 's/ /\\ /g')
#echo "fileName = " $fileName
#rename -v 's/ /_/g' $(echo $1|sed 's/ /\\ /g')
echo $1|rename -v 's/ /_/g'

#unset fileName
exit=0

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"rmspace.sh" 12L, 260C                                        12,0-1        All

The problem was very similar to http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/pro...-variable.htmljust below.

Must say I don't understand what was wrong before. I'll try sugestions and see what happens.

[drl]

Hi.

... Must say I don't understand what was wrong before. I'll try sugestions and see what happens.

Quoting issue. See the differences between this script in file "user1" and your original:

#! /bin/bash
# Remove spaces from filenames and replace with underscores.

# Remove debris from previous runs and set up file as parameter 1.
echo
rm -f "f  1" f__1
touch "f  1"
ls -lgG f*
set -- "f  1"

echo
echo "arg 1 is \"$1\""
# fileName=`echo "$1"|sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
fileName=$1
echo "fileName = " $fileName
echo "fileName = " "$fileName"

echo
# rename -v 's/ /_/g' $fileName
rename -v 's/ /_/g' "$fileName"

unset fileName
ls -lgG f*

# exit=0
exit 0

producing:

% ./user1 

-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 17 06:17 f  1

arg 1 is "f  1"
fileName =  f 1
fileName =  f  1

f  1 renamed as f__1
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 17 06:17 f__1

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

[PairOfBlanks2]

Replace: fileName=`echo "$1"|sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
With: fileName=`echo "$1"|sed 's/ /_/g'`

and

Replace: rename -v 's/ /_/g' $fileName
With: rename $1 $fileName $1

This works for both absolute and relative paths. I've just tested it.

[bigcrab]

The following script is tested to work.

#! /bin/bash
THEDIR=/home/linux/a/* #define the directory where script will remove the space in file names
echo ----------------------------------
for files in $THEDIR;
do
newfile=`echo $files | sed -e 's/\ /\_/g'`
if [ "$newfile" != "$files" ]; then
echo "oldfilename is $files"
echo "newfilename is $newfile"
mv "$files" "$newfile"
echo "$files is renamed to $newfile"
else
echo "$files doesn\'t contain space"
fi
echo ----------------------------------
done

[lugoteehalt]

Gracias.

dri: Understand quotes better now. Have even worked out that my improved script above, amounts to: echo $1|rename -v 's/ /_/g' , needs quotes round $1 to work for multiple consecutive spaces.