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I have a bunch of files who's filename follows the pattern 'filename.ext'. eg:
filename .ext
I would like to rename all of these to remove the space before the .ext. eg:
filename.ext
I can find them all using
find * -type f -name'* .*'
but how can I then rename all these files?
On Windows, I use the excellent (and free) ReNamer tool.
Screenshot below demonstrates how to do your example operation with 2 simple Replace rules, but you can also use Regular Expressions if you want.
You can also do a file name that starts with a period, and has no extension. Try naming it ".whatever." (note the trailing period). This works in both Explorer and from the command line.
Best Answer
Make a file named "renamethis.sh". Its contents should be:
Set the executable bit:
chmod a+x renamethis.sh. Then, run something like:find /path/to/dir -name '* .*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0L 1 /path/to/renamethis.shYMMV, no warranty express or implied, etc.
FWIW, the spaces are what makes this strange; as long as you don't have other oddball characters in the files names, you're good to go with this approach. If you do, you may want to consider something like a scandir/readdir loop in Perl or PHP, but the above script is the first thing that came to mind.