In this method, we will make use of a bash script that uses the mv command in order to rename file and folder names in a way that all the spaces are removed. When I listed the contents of the directory again, you can see that all the file names no longer contain any spaces.Īdvertisement Method 2: Using a bash script to rename files This is the command I will use, while in the directory whose files I want to rename: $ for oldname in * do newname=`echo $oldname | sed -e 's/ //g'` mv "$oldname" "$newname" So, all the file names contain not one, but two spaces each. Here is how the files in my sample folder look like I have listed the contents using the ls command:
Open your Ubuntu command line, the Terminal, either through the Application Launcher search or the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut. In this method, we will be making use of the Ubuntu mv command, in a for loop, in order to rename all files/folders in a directory such that all the spaces are removed. Method 1: Through the mv command in ‘for’ loop We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system. In this article, we will explain two ways for you to remove spaces from your filenames, very simply through the Ubuntu command line. This way your filenames will contain no spaces and you can easily work with them in all your applications. We do not always save files in this “no space” format and might have to look for a workaround that removes spaces in filenames altogether. While working with Linux, you might come across some utilities and apps that only work with file names that do not include any spaces.
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