Changing a folder name that has a space in it

babs

5/18/24, 1:29 PM

I need to Change a folder name Word Press into wordpress. It gives an error because I have mistakenly written the folder name in two parts, which is not recognized as one name. What can I do terminal prompt wise, please?

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command-line

directory

rename

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Ubuntu

raj

5/18/24, 1:31 PM

You need to escape the space in name. Type

mv "Word Press" wordpress

mv Word\ Press wordpress

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babs

5/19/24, 7:13 AM

It says file cannot be read. Directory or folder not found.(translation)

babs

5/19/24, 7:14 AM

Does the folder need to be active when doing this?

raj

5/19/24, 1:25 PM

If you get a message "directory not found", you need to use the correct path to the directory. The commands I wrote will work only if your current directory is the parent directory of "Word Press". You should either change to that directory or use full paths in the command.

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Ubuntu

Raffa

5/18/24, 3:04 PM

To automatically remove spaces in all file/directory names in the current working directory, you can use rename(needs installing) like so:

rename -n 's/ //g' *

Notice: -n is for a dry-run ... Remove it when satisfied with the output and rerun to actually do the renaming.

Or you can use a bash loop like so:

for f in *; do [[ "$f" =~ " " ]] && echo mv -n -- "$f" "${f// /}"; done

Notice: echo is for a dry-run ... Remove it when satisfied with the output and rerun to actually do the renaming.

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