Spaces in filenames?

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Hart Larry wrote:

> I would think you would need to have quotes beginning before the first space, 
> but really you might find a script to change those spaces to dashes.

You can use a \  to mean a space. That's
"\ "

And this command will change all spaces in file names to -...
(its recursivly too.)
find directory-destination -type f -exec rename 's/\ /-/g' '{}' +
And change -type f to -type d for directories.

Don't ask me how it works.
I don't know.

HTH,

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