Re: recursively move types of files

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2008-05-15 14:06 +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> Am 15.05.2008 um 02:22 schrieb Charles L. Snyder:
>>
>>> 2. I have a huge number of files named like this
>>> "Report_work_01232008_blah.pdf", and I want to replace all the "_"
>>> with " "
>>
>>
>> It's probably better to do it outside dired-mode, in a *shell* buffer:
>
> Why that?  I'd switch to wdired-mode and do a query-replace followed by
> C-c C-c.  No need to write a shell script.
>
> Sven
>
To serial rename files you can also use:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SerialRename
(Not sure it will work with space, it's a long time i don't check this code)
Tought it's a bad idea to name files ala losedows with spaces.
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