Bash Help: Renaming all files in a Directory

[Todd Zullinger]

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Thom Paine wrote:
> I'm making a digital picture frame out of an old laptop and the pic
> viewer doesn't support filenames with spaces in them.
> 
> Is there a quick command I can type to process all files in a
> directory that will rename the files from "Family Pic 001.jpg" to
> "FamilyPic001.jpg"?

A little while loop would be one way to do this:

ls "Family Pic"*.jpg | while read i; do mv "$i" $(echo $i | tr " " _)

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