Remove dashes from filenames
This removes spaces in filenames.
How can I also remove dashes - ?
rename "s/ //g" *
Solution 1:
rename in Ubuntu is a perl tool, it uses perl syntax:
s/regex/replacement/modifiers
In your case:
- regex is a space (what you want to replace)
- replacement is empty (you want to replace with nothing)
-
modifiers is
g(don't stop after first regex match)
So you need to understand how to edit the regex to match dashes:
Simply use this to remove dashes:
rename 's/-//g' *
But if you want to remove both dashes and space, you may use character classes.
So this will do it for you:
rename 's/[- ]//g' *
Please note, when any of the filenames begins with a -, it won't work. Please see @BillPoser's answer.
Solution 2:
rename 's/-//g' *
doesn't work when any of the filenames begins with a dash, because it is then interpreted as initiating an option. You need to use the -- flag, which terminates the option string:
rename -- 's/-//g' *