I realise this might be quite a simple question, but I'm still quite new to the command line and only have a grasp of basic commands.
I've downloaded some lecture presentations (~25 or so) from my University however on doing so they've been named things like…
L2%20Development%20of%20immune%20system.pptx
L4%20Molecular%20Recognition.pdf
As you can see they've downloaded with the URL encoding %20
instead of a space.
My question is how to batch rename all of these files so that the %20
is removed and replaced with a space instead?
Best Answer
On Debian and derivatives (including Ubuntu), you could use
rename
, which applies a Perl expression to each file name.I would consider using underscore instead of space – as it generally makes life easier in the cli world.
To generalise to all URI encoding: