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From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: removing spaces from a file name
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:41:13 +0100
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On 30/01/2008, zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> I still dislike spaces in file names:-
>
> mv Licence\ to\ Print\ Money.pdf !#^:gs/ //
>
> Is there a better/other way?

You could define a function in your .zshrc (or make a script in your
~/bin or something) that does it for you
function renamespaces() { for a ($@) {mv $a ${a// } } }

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

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