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Python script to rename files in directory, transforming spaces to hyphens and the chars to lowercase
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| import os | |
| """ | |
| Renames the filenames within the same directory to be Unix friendly | |
| (1) Changes spaces to hyphens | |
| (2) Makes lowercase (not a Unix requirement, just looks better ;) | |
| Usage: | |
| python rename.py | |
| """ | |
| path = os.getcwd() | |
| filenames = os.listdir(path) | |
| for filename in filenames: | |
| os.rename(filename, filename.replace(" ", "-").lower()) |
how can i change only the first letter of a filename into uppercase??
how about removing leading space in multiple files in a directory?
i have many files in a directory and each one start with a space. so how to batch remove that?
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@rdegges that does not make uppercase -> lowercase though.