Remove whitespace from filenames

[learningawk]

Hi,
I have done a search on previous submissions and found some help on this but my example doesn't quite work.


I want to replace from all filenames in a directory all commas and 1 or more whitespace with a single underscore.
If the file name has a " in it, i want to just remove it.

Here's my awk script so far:

{
if (FNR==1) {
if (NR>1) close(fn)
if (match($0,/[ ,]/)) {gsub(/[ ,]/, "_",$0)
if (match($0,/["]/)) {gsub(/["]/, "",$0) }
}
}



and here's a test of file names:
file1 record 1.dat
file1,record 2.dat
file1 ,"record"3.dat


I want the output to become:
file1_record_1.dat
file1_record_2.dat
file1__record3.dat

 

[vgersh99]

{
gsub(/([,]+|[ ]+)/, "_"
gsub(/"/, ""
print;
}

vlad
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[learningawk]

Vlad,
Thanks for help.

I tried this with the following:
{
if (FNR==1) {
if (NR>1) close(fn)
gsub(/([,]+|[ ]+)/, &quot;_&quot;
gsub(/&quot;/, &quot;&quot;
print;
}
}

and ran it like gawk -f script *.dat

I got an output of
bbb
aaaaaaaa

It did not substitute the space between filenames in my directory.

Am I incorporating it correctly?
Thanks

 

[vgersh99]

why do you have this?

> if (FNR==1) {
> if (NR>1) close(fn)

Drop the outter 'if' and try the solution as posted.

vlad
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