rename appears useless in Ubuntu

[Heike C. Zimmerer]

anthony baldwin <photodharma at gmail.com> writes:

> Heike C. Zimmerer wrote:

> Ah, but it DOES work, young paduan.

I never wrote something different.  Thanks.

> A working version would be
>> 
>>   for i in *."$a"
>> 
>> Now:
>> 
>>> do
>>> rename \  _ *.$a
>> 
>> With the for clause adjusted as depicted above, use
>> 
>>   mv "$i" "${i// /_}"
>> 
>> here, and you should be done (not tested).  As you wrote it, the rename
>> command is called many times with the first call doing the real work and
>> getting all the file names as arguments (*.$a), and the remaining calls
>> being useless (but doing no harm) since there a no spaces in file names
>> any more.
>
> The first time, it removes the first space in each file name,
> then the second, etc.
> If I run it without the loop, it only removes the first space.

So the number of files must be equal or greater the maximum number of
spaces in a filename ... that's not exactly reliable ...

I didn't want to offend you.  It's just what can be easily seen if one
looks at your script.  If you think it's fine as it is, forget what I
wrote and continue.


Heike