White Space

[Steve Massey_1]

Hi

What is the best way to remove white space from a file name

Steve

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Move the file. (mv tod*ay newname)

[Steve Massey_1]

Thanks Chris

But I should have given more detail

I am writing a script that takes a filename - with non alpha numeric chars - and I want to remove them

Steve

[Patrick Wessel]

mv "name with black" namewithoutblack

[Brian M. Fisher · Accepted solution]

The tr (translate characters) command may give you the options you are after. It can be used to remove "white space".

man tr

Brian
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[Patrick Wessel]

well, I guess I posted my first answer to fast.

this line should do the trick:

string_without_space=`echo $string_with_blank | sed -e 's/ //g'`

[Alan Riggs]

To generalize the sed command for any particular set of non-standard characters use:

good_name=`echo bad_name|sed 's/[]//g'
mv $bad_name $good_name

[Duane Gorder]

I like Alan Riggs' answer, but remember that some of the special characters that you might want to list will have to be "escaped" with th \ character.