[X-Unix] Renaming files with spaces

[Wing Wong]

You need to escape or quote the entries:

for f in *.PDF
do
    base=`basename "${f} .PDF`
    mv "${f}" "${base}.pdf"
done

That works fine for me.

Wing.

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I need to batch rename all files with extension .PDF to extension .pdf.
> They may or may not have spaces in the filenames.
>
> The following works ONLY if there are no spaces in the filename:
>
> for f in *.PDF; do
>        base=`basename $f .PDF`
>        mv $f $base.pdf
> done
>
> Can anyone provide a tip to something that will work regardless of whether
> there are spaces in the filenames or not?
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
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>
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