{"id":58,"date":"2012-02-29T22:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:54:48","slug":"remove-spaces-filenames-ubuntu-linux-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/remove-spaces-filenames-ubuntu-linux-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove spaces from filenames on the Ubuntu Linux command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62\" title=\"ubuntu command line interface\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/command-line-interface1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" style=\"float: left; padding: 0 5px 0 0;\" \/>I&#8217;ve been working on sizing a large number of images for a client to go into a WordPress photo gallery. I use a for loop to find all the files and use convert to size them to a good size for viewing on a website. The problem is the convert program doesn&#8217;t like file names with spaces in them. It seems like the easiest thing to do is remove the spaces from the file names with a Ubuntu command line script. This is easily accomplished with the rename comannd.<\/p>\n<pre>rename 'y\/ \/_\/' *<\/pre>\n<p>This script will replace any spaces spaces in the filenames with underscores (_)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">I&#8217;ve been working on sizing a large number of images for a client to go into a WordPress photo gallery. I use a for loop to find all the files and use convert to size them to a good size for viewing on a website. The problem is the convert program doesn&#8217;t like file names with spaces in them. It&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/remove-spaces-filenames-ubuntu-linux-command-line\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[94,46,44,47,43,45],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remove spaces from filenames on Ubuntu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Quick, easy way to remove spaces from filenames in the Linux command line.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/remove-spaces-filenames-ubuntu-linux-command-line\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" 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