Change spaces or dots in file name to dashes

[Serg B.]

WARNING: Not tested - so test it first.

>From top level directory do:
find . -exec rename -v 's/[^\w\d\-]/_/g' {} \;

On 13/05/07, Dave M <DaveM at mich.com> wrote:
> At 12:41 PM 5/11/2007 , Toby wrote:
> >    rename -v 's/[^\w\d\-]/_/g' *
> >
> >to replace all non-alphanumeric-or-dash characters with underscores in all
> >files
> >in the current folder.
>
> Thank you for the very useful tip. Is there an easy way to make it traverse
> a directory tree and fix the names of all of the files in the various
> sub-directories?
>
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Serg