How do I find all files with one ore more blank space (while spaces) in their name under UNIX like operating systems?
Simple use ls command along with egrep to list only file names with white spaces
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ls | egrep '. ' |
Sample Outputs:
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You can copy all such files to other directories using xargs:
ls | egrep '. ' | xargs -I{} cp -v {} /tmp/ |
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Thank you, this was very helpful.
I need to replace the file names from white spaces to ‘_’.
Please advise on this.