Comments on: How to Remove Spaces from Filenames in Linux/UNIX

By: Michael Byrne

Michael Byrne — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:27:33 +0000

Lovely loop, Many thanks.

By: Susanna Kaukinen

Susanna Kaukinen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:14:47 +0000

There’s a tool for this => http://linux.die.net/man/1/detox

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:39:16 +0000

Worked awesome, thanks! And yes, it worked recursively.

By: Tiago Hillebrandt

Tiago Hillebrandt — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:27:59 +0000

PS: Doesn’t works recursively.

By: Tiago Hillebrandt

Tiago Hillebrandt — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:27:04 +0000

Another way: rename “s/ *//g” *

By: grace

grace — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:36:20 +0000

Hello,
Thank you very much.
I wanted to remove () from file name..
and your script worked gr8
Keep up the godd work
best regards

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:35:35 +0000

Thanks for the code and nice explanation — always appreciate the latter. Just starting to understand the power of sed.

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:28:53 +0000

This does not work if you’re trying to remove whitespace from directories (and their subdirectories!) as well as all files. The logic in the code posted works so that directories are renamed recursively, and the paths to the files in subdirectories are not rewritten accordingly, so the deeply nested files are not renamed. You will have to rerun this code one additional time per each additional level of depth you have in your directory tree.

For one-shot solution in Perl, try here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=27739

By: MvE

MvE — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:07:23 +0000

Nice. It is possible to string this all together in one line, of course.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:56:07 +0000

Thanks for the script, funny how it took me almost an hour on google to find this, “replace spaces in filename for all files in directory”.