if on windows, there is a nifty tool called Total Commander, that has a multi-rename facility, amoing many other uses. 2009/11/21 Bernard Owuor <b_owuor@yahoo.com>
If you're in Linux, use:
# rename 'y/\ /_/' *
------------------------------ *From:* saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> *To:* Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Sent:* Sat, November 21, 2009 2:20:49 AM *Subject:* [Skunkworks] if you ever need to rename 100+ files...
I needed to quickly and painlessly rename some files by replacing spaces with underscores (_). Here's a quick and dirty python script that did it for me. I ran it from the python interpreter command-line (I didn't save the script to a file... lazy).
----- begin script----- import os
for file in os.listdir(os.getcwd()): newname = "_".join(file.split()) os.rename(file, newname)
----- end script------
It's a quick and dirty script so there's no error-handling of *any* sort. But that's trivial to add if you needed it.
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