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Now, exit the file through the Ctrl+X shortcut and save the file on the “Save modified buffer?” prompt by typing Y and then hitting Enter. Tip: Instead of typing the whole script into you bash file, you can copy it from here and paste in the Terminal by using the Ctrl+Shift+V, or by using the Paste option from the right-click menu. In that empty file, add the following script: #!/bin/bashĮcho not renaming \""$f"\" because \""$new"\" already exists We will use the nano editor in order to open an empty script file by the name of replace_spaces.sh $ sudo nano replace_spaces.sh

Now, open a new script file in one of your favorite text editors. Open the Terminal application and move to the bin folder as follow: $ cd ~bin In this method, we will make use of a bash script that uses the mv command in order to rename file and folder names in a way that all the spaces are replaced with underscores. When I listed the contents of the directory again, you can see that all file names now contain underscores instead of spaces. I ran the same command to replace spaces with underscores in my Downloads folder: Here is the syntax of the command you will be using: $ for file in * do mv "$file" `echo $file | tr ' ' '_'` done Open your Ubuntu command line, the Terminal, either through the Application Launcher search or the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut. In this method, we will be making use of the Ubuntu mv command in a for loop in order to rename all files/folders in a given directory so that all spaces in their names are replaced with underscore characters. I will be using this folder to explain how I convert the filenames to a new format.

My Downloads folder, which I will be using as a sample for this article, contains spaces in all filenames. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

In this article, we will explain two ways for you to convert all spaces in filenames to underscores, very simply through the command line. This way your filenames will contain no spaces and you can easily work with them in all applications. We do not always save files in this “no space” format and might have to look for a workaround that replaces spaces in filenames with underscore characters ‘_’. While working with Linux, you might come across some utilities and apps that only work with file names that do not include spaces.