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How to replace one char with another in all filenames of the current directories?

In any shell, you can loop over the files whose name contains a space. Replacing the spaces with underscores is easy in bash, ksh and zsh with the ${VARIABLE//PATTERN/REPLACEMENT} construct.

for x in *” “*; do mv — “$x” “${x// /_}” done

On Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, you can use the Perl rename (other distributions ship a different program as rename, and that program isn’t helpful here).

rename ‘s/ /_/g’ *

An obligatory zsh solution:

autoload zmv zmv ‘(*)’ ‘${1// /_}’

An obligatory POSIX solution:

for x in *” “*; do y=$(printf %sa “$x” | tr ” ” “_”) mv — “$x” “${y%a}” done

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