[Clipart] xargs rename isn't working...

[Bryce Harrington]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:00:28PM -0600, Michael Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm following the release procedure here:
> http://openclipart.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Procedure
> 
> and am trying to get rid of spaces in the names. The find/xargs
> command isn't doing the trick though.
> 
> $ find . -name "* *" | xargs rename ' ' '_'
> 
> find _does_ find them all, and xargs doesn't throw any errors, but the
> files remain named the same thing after running it.
> 
> Anyone know what I can do about it?
> I'm using Ubuntu Dapper, with the bash shell, if that helps any.

Try running it on just a few files and see if it works.  If it does,
then the quantity of files or possibly the length of one of the
filenames may be the issue.

Also, I think that command could probably be improved.  I think that'll
only replace the first space in the filename with an underscore.  Really
what you want is to replace all of the spaces with underscores.

Bryce