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There is an answer that is very useful to me in this thread about renaming folders with trailing whitespaces:
Remove Leading or Trailing Space(s) in File or Folder Names

What I can't figure out how I can change the following command so that it also changes the names in subfolders.

rename -n 's/ *$//' *

I obviously already tried to check this myself with "rename -h" but I can;t see the solution.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Chris

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answered 1 Year ago llianconclad · Accepted Answer

You may just need to enable the globstar option of the bash shell then use **/* instead of *:

shopt -s globstar

rename -n 's/ *$//' **/*