Remove Spaces from Filenames

If you’ve ever wanted to remove the spaces from all the filenames in a directory and replace them with underscores, here’s how to do it with a bit of bash shell scripting.

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

May come in handy one day!



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