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Rename whitespace in files to underscores, with any level of nesting
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| maxdepth=`find . -printf '%d\\n' | sort -n | tail -1` && for depth in `seq 1 $maxdepth`; do find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth $depth -exec bash -c 'f=`echo "{}" | sed -r s:\\\s+:_:g` ; if [ "$f" != "{}" ]; then mv "{}" "$f"; fi' \; ; done |
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I'm sure this isn't the shortest code to achieve the result, but it does handle the case where a file or directory with spaces is nested inside another directory with spaces (to any level of recursion). It does this simply by processing one level of depth at a time.