Thank you, but it still gives error, because I can't cd to a dir containing spaces, like: cd /home/user/some dir what has spaces/something but I think I found something, "renaming using inode" <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <<a href="mailto:smoot@tic.com">smoot@tic.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 18:54 +0200, Soren Orel wrote: > Hi > I wrote a little script that removes spaces, dashes, and so on from > the filenames in a directory ($1), and lowercase all filename letters, > etc. > > how could I complete the script, that so it will "recursively" do the > same thing? </div>You could stick it in "find" and have find do the recursion. find . -type d -exec your_script {} \; -- Smoot Carl-Mitchell Computer Systems and Network Consultant <a href="mailto:smoot@tic.com">smoot@tic.com</a> +1 480 922 7313 cell: +1 602 421 9005 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>