find and space in file name

[ktk]

Hello,

I am trying to write a command to rename files and/or directories by replace non ascii alpha-numeric character. For this topic I will consider replacing space (" ") by underscore ("_") in filenames.

First I wrote :

for i in *; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done

It works well but does not treat subdirectories...

So I wanted to try with find :

find . -type f -execdir mv "{}" `echo "{}" | tr ' ' '_'` ";"

But it does not work.

For information:
in a filetree like

racine
- sub dir
- other one

find racine -type f -execdir echo `echo "{}" | tr ' ' '_'` ";"

returns:

sub dir
other one

We can see that the space have not been deleted...

Does somebody know why ?

[robertdaleweir]

Hi ktk
I am unable to help with your direct question but I thank you for your first line of code. It has helped me with a problem I have been struggling with for several weeks. If you ever solve your question please post back as many can benefit by your solution. You obviously have a lot of skill with CLI cammands. Cheers...
Robert