Bash Help: Renaming all files in a Directory

[David Gomez]

On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 19:27 -0400, 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"?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Did you try the rename command?

rename ' ' _ *.jpg

Not as powerful as the perl one, but good enough for this situation
And I am thinking you have it installed already (In my pc is in a
util-linux package