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Ubuntu - File - Rename replace all occurrences of string within a filename

Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens

for f in * ; do mv "$f" $( echo $f | tr ' ' '-' ) ; done

Using perl

rename 's/ /-/g' *

As long as you have perl based rename. You can check: =$ rename –help Unknown option: help Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] That's the good one.

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Ubuntu - File - Rename replace all occurrences of string within a filename

Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens

Using perl