<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <hr id="stopSpelling"> <snip> 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" </snip> actually..yes you can. instead of typing "cd /home/user/some dir", type "cd /home/user/some\ dir" --cj <div class="EC_gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <<a>smoot@tic.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="EC_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>smoot@tic.com</a> +1 480 922 7313 cell: +1 602 421 9005 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a>ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </body> </html>