From: Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: dired renaming files: replacing mutliple whitespaces with underscores
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877irup36j.fsf@pdrechsler.de> (raw)
Hi,
could somebody point me in the right direction on replacing multiple
whitespaces in filenames with underscores using dired?
% m \(.*[ ].*\)+\..+ RET ; mark all files with spaces
% R [ ] RET _ RET ; replace space with underscore
The drawback is that one has to repeat this many times for file names
wich have multiple whitespaces.
Is there better way of doing this with dired (or dired-x, dired+)?
TIA
Patrick
BTW: I'm using Emacs23 from CVS.
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2007-04-30 10:27 Patrick Drechsler [this message]
2007-04-30 11:16 ` dired renaming files: replacing mutliple whitespaces with underscores Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-04-30 11:55 ` Patrick Drechsler
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