Re: Change spaces or dots in file name to dashes

At 12:41 PM 5/11/2007 , Toby wrote:
rename -v 's/[^\w\d\-]/_/g' *

to replace all non-alphanumeric-or-dash characters with underscores in all
files
in the current folder.

Thank you for the very useful tip. Is there an easy way to make it traverse
a directory tree and fix the names of all of the files in the various
sub-directories?

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