[ale] Removing blanks

Terry Bailey terry at bitlinx.com
Fri Jan 22 12:26:41 EST 2010


I don't want to change any characters in a file.  I want to change 
each " " to a "_" within the file name itself.

At 11:40 AM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
>Terry Bailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to use either a command or batch file to change
> > all the blanks in a file name to another character?
> >
> > I thought maybe sed would work, but if so, I have not been able to
> > figure it out.
>
>cat filename |tr " " "$NEWCHARACTER"
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Terry Bailey
> >
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