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renaming a large tree of "folder_names" to "folder names"

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A friend of mine took the liberty to remove all white-spaces " " in the foldernames on our shared drives and substitute them with the underline character "_" . The filenames are unaffected, and the error is systematic propagated in foldernames only

Any good proposal on which command could resolve this?

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answered 2 Years ago defendle · Accepted Answer

If you really want to go back to spaces, here is the command, only for files

find /path -type f -iname '*_*' -exec bash -c 'echo mv -i "$1" "${1//_/ }"' _ {} ;

This only shows what would do, remove the echo to really exec.

Next you can change also directory substituting -type f with -type d.