MacOS – Mass remove blank spaces from file names and folder names

These kind of things can be tricky in all Unix shells due to the way space is acting as a separator, running aliases as part of shell scripts just makes things even more interesting. I would probably run two passes of find to set first the directories in order, and then next the files:

find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec chmod u+x '{}' \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type f -exec chmod u-x '{}' \;

I use Name Mangler 3 for file and folder renaming. There are free options out there, but Name Mangler offers a ton of features that make it well worth the $19.00 to me.

Here is Name Mangler on MacUpdate which includes links to many similar programs.

1. Once you have Name Mangler installed, launch it
2. Drag all of the folder you want to rename into the panel where it says "Drag Files and Folders Here"
3. On the right choose "Find and Replace"
4. Enter "<"
5. Under "Replace with" enter the character you want to replace "<" with or leave blank to remove it
6. Click "Rename x of x items"

Once of the many things that makes using a tool like Name Mangler valuable is that you can undo your changes, view a history of your changes, and create a "droplet" that make running the name change on other files really convenient. All of that plus being able to use Regex to build very complicated renames.

There is also a great Name Mangler Google Group where you can get your questions answered and some very advanced features and methods get discussed. They have been a big help to me.