General :: Shell - Rename A File From Something Without Spaces To Something Containing Spaces?
Jan 26, 2010
Is it possible, in Linux, to rename a file from something without spaces to something containing spaces? I know I can create directories and files with spaces by doing:
mkdir "new dir" and:
touch "new file.txt"
I want to rename files from:
imgp0882.jpg to something like:
20091231 1243 some topic.jpg
And how would it look in a shell script that uses parameters like:
for i in *.jpg do
rename "$i" "$somepath/$mydate $mytime $mytopic$extension"
?
I'm new to Linux (using PCLinuxOS 2009.2), coming from Windows, and I've written myself a little shell script to download files from my camera and then automatically rename them according to a date-and-topic pattern. As you can guess by now, I'm stuck on the bit about renaming. If you want to see my script, here's a copy. I'm not using jhead for this renaming because that only works with JPEG files but I want a single solution for any media format including videos.
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Jun 8, 2011
I named a number of files with spaces in them, and I want to replace the space with "_". However, every time I write a command in the shell with the file name (eg "Spring 2011"), the shell doesn't recognize the file or directory. What can I do about this? Is there any way to use the unicode character for a space?
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Mar 28, 2011
I am trying to rename a lot of files but need to keep the extension :
the files are films names :
a.b.c.d.***.iso
the result should be replacing "." by spaces " "
this command :
for files in *.iso ; do mv "$files" `echo "$files" | tr '.' ' '`; done
put a space also before the extension iso ??
How can I rename files from
"a.b.c.d.iso" to "a b c d.iso"
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May 7, 2010
I did the following script:
Code:
DIR=`pwd`;for i in `find . -name GESTION -type d`;do cd $i/..;setfacl -R -m g:directores:rwx,
GESTION;echo $DIR'/'$i;cd $DIR;done
This code do the following actions:
1. Starting inside a folder, it's searching for any folder called "GESTION"
2. Every time a folder called "GESTION" is found, then the script move to its parent folder, and then it applies ACL permissions to the folder GESTION by using the command setfacl.
The problem is that the script doesn't works when there was found a folder with a blank space in its name. I mean:
/dir1/dir2/dir3/GESTION --> this works fine
/dir1/dir2/dir 3/GESTION --> this doesn't works
/dir1/dir2/dir3/2. GESTION --> this doesn't works
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Nov 22, 2010
I'm hoping that someone can help me, I need to remove spaces (not replace with underscores) from several thousand files on a system with cygwin.
Can I do this from the shell using rename or mv somehow?
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Sep 9, 2009
trying to write my thesis in Lyx 1.6. It works fine on my windows laptop at home but Not on my work computer. The problem is, when i try to view it in pdflatex it comes with with: Lyx: file name error The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces
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Sep 3, 2010
I got myself a .bashrc file off the net. I checked it beforehand, didn't detect anything bad about it. One thing that's odd about it, is that several spaces are added to the terminal command line.Screenshot:Those spaces are not put there by me. The file can be found here: [URL]..
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Jan 12, 2011
I tried Suse five or six years ago and ran into an issue that was not comfortable to work with so I went back to windows. The problem was open spaces between words was not permitted with my music files. I have transferred all of my CDs and LPs to MP3 and have a tremendous number of them and the Suse of five years ago required I convert a title like Foggy Mountain Special.mp3 into something resembling Foggy_Mountain_Special.mp3
I don't care to convert literally a hundred thousand titles to fit the latter format. Does the current version of Suse allow the use of spaces between the words or is the 'no open space' convention still required?
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Jul 24, 2010
I have a laptop that I am in through SSH. The laptop does not have an Xwindow system so I am using the program fbi to open an image on my laptop screen from my SSH connection:
fbi -T 8 picture.jpg #this opens the image on the laptops tty8 terminal
I've found that making a for loop does not work with files that contain a space in the name. Something to due with a bug that they call a "feature" that stops the first variable at the first whitespace.
Using a "while" loop is not exactly what i require either seeing as I want to be able to view each image in the directory on screen and tag it accordingly, before it jumps off to the next image, and I'm not sure how to add a pause to a while loop.
How do I make a Bash script and loop Variables handle files like "files that contain spaces.jpg"
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Jun 12, 2011
Kernel 2.6.21.5, slack 12.0 I have a file beginning with <?xml version=1.0?>. May I replace tabs by spaces in it?
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Feb 21, 2011
Iam reading a file using C-sh script after manipulating the variables I need to dump into a new file. This in working fine but I couldn't retain the multiple spaces and tabs in a same line. For readability I want to print it back as I read. Now script treating multiple tabs as onl tab or space.
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Aug 2, 2011
i am trying to make a script in which i can drag a file (with spaces in file name ) and it will scp the file to another computermy code is
Code:
echo "--------------------------------------------"
echo "drag file now"
[code]....
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May 18, 2011
How can I make vi and nano such that when I press the tab key, it automatically replaces the tab with 4 spaces?
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Dec 2, 2010
I am trying to read a file character wise and trying to write the same character to another file. In this process, I unable to read and write white spaces successfully to the new file. The script reads the white spaces but while writing the white space is lost. The section of the code, is given below. Please advice how can i read and retain the white space while writing to a new file.
Code:
if [ -s f_test.txt ] && [ -f f_test.txt ]; then
echo "File Exists !!"
while read -n1 char; do
[code]....
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Jan 11, 2011
I often get files with many spaces as part of their names. I would like to automatically replace these spaces with underscores, but otherwise not change the file name. Is there a way to do this task with just the bash shell?
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May 26, 2010
I'm trying to use a tilde '~' for a filename. This works fine normally Code: rm ~/File
But when I have a file with a space in in and enclose it in quotes it takes it literally.If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (�~�), all of the characters up to the first unquoted slash (or all characters, if there is no unquoted slash) are considered a tilde-prefix.
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Dec 10, 2010
A process with name=example can be killed by killall -9 example
How to kill multiple instances of following command which contain spaces?
"valgrind --tool=lackey ./testcases/kernel/syscalls/waitpid/waitpid03"
Following command returns valgrind --tool=lackey ./testcases/kernel/syscalls/waitpid/waitpid03: No such file or directory
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Feb 2, 2011
Ive some textfiles which contains some colums seperated by a various number of spaces, but instead i need one single tab as a seperator.
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Jan 5, 2011
I have a line like
port = 2566
I want to replace it as
port = 8080
how to do this in shell script. when i tried to do this with sed
sed -i 's/port=.*/port='$3'/' /root/$2
it is not recognizing spaces , it works only if line is port=2566 .
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Jan 21, 2010
I am trying to run an scp command on my linux server, this is working fine, however I changed the output folder to one which has spaces and now when run, it's coming up saying SCP ambiguous target
Here's my string:
expect -c 'spawn scp -r /var/lib/asterisk/backups/Everyday/ administrator@192.1.1.1:
/Volumes/Data1/My Backup Folder/ ; expect assword ; send "MYPASSWORD " ; interact;'
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Jul 2, 2010
I have a lot of files with tabs littered throughout, and I'd like to convert them all into spaces. I know about the expand command, but unfortunately I would have to type out every single file using it. Is there any easier way to do this on Linux?
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Sep 14, 2010
I am reading the output of /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ATF0/temperature in a program to read my CPU temp. I am using cat like the following:
Code:
#cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ATF0/temperature
temperature: 49 C
I basically want to get rid of the spaces in between temperature and the actual temperature. Is there a command I can pipe the cat output to, to remove the spaces. I have seen suggestions for sed, or tr, but for some reason I cannot get them to work properly.
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Mar 11, 2011
my requirement is i need to copy mail subject to a text file and create one directory from the name of subject.
my MAIL subject is like this :
Quote:
Subject:Thanks to linuxquestions.org
i copied the mail subject to a file. and now the issue is to creating a directory.
now i want to create a directory without empty spaces, insted of space replace _ in that place.
i want out put like this.
Quote:
Thanks_to_linuxquestions.org
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Oct 6, 2010
I am trying to encode files via mencoder. The file name has spaces in it. "test file.mkv". When I manually type the command in the terminal, everything works. But when I use a bash script (I'm reading it from a file) it doesn't. It gives me
Code:
File not found: '"test'
Below is the bash script I wrote
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# For testing, we have already built a file list, so just use that.
# ls *.mkv>files.lst
exec 10<files.lst
let count=0
while read -u 10 FILE; do
LINE="mencoder -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -vf scale=1024:-3 -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=28:vbv_maxrate=1500:nocabac:global_header:bframes=0 -oac faac -faacopts br=160:mpeg=4:object=2:raw -channels 2 -srate 48000 "$FILE" -o test.mp4"
echo $LINE
exec $LINE
done
exec 10>&-
files.lst contains only a single line (no newline) with
Code:
test file.mkv
On a related note, when I was first trying this simply on the command line, I had a file that had a double exclamation point. I found out that that is a shortcut of some kind for the previous command. My kludge to get around this was to try to execute a single exclamation point as a command, then to change the double exclamation point to a quadruple exclamation point. Is there a proper way (escape sequence or something) to pass double exclamation points to a command?
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Jul 28, 2010
I want to ask a question regarding the terminal in ubuntu. When i deleted some lines in the config files for example, there will be those so-called extra spaces left after deleting and i can't seem to delete those spaces and 'pull' up the lines below. So, how to delete those extra spaces?
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Mar 17, 2011
How do I access files with spaces from the command line?
for example I want to go to a file called "New File" and let's say is in Downloads/Books/(and here is the file)
how do I input the space since the command line doesn't recognize it?
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Oct 7, 2009
need all spaces between two letters or a letter and a number exchanged for an underscore, but all spaces between a letter and other characters need to remain. One example for clarity:
Input:
force -- lamin 90 [label]
active A -- generation [label]
needed Output:
force -- lamin_90 [label]
active_A -- generation [label]
I tried solving this with sed but obviously s/ /_/g does not work, nor does any s/[a-zA-z0-9] [a-zA-z0-9]/[a-zA-z0-9]_[a-zA-z0-9]/g , because you just can't do this...
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Feb 2, 2010
I need to seach a string containing
the substring of 'New Request object:'
and
the substring of '/0x2ab46b1f90' in vi editor,
how do I accomplish that?
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May 11, 2011
command to find list of table spaces in oracle in unix
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May 19, 2011
I have want to list sub-directories with spaces but am facing the following problem:
My subdirectories are:
FirstDirectory
Directory with spaces
if I use
Code:
for directory in "`find . -type d`"
[Code]...
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