[plug] Remove first sp[ac]e in a filename

[Trevor Phillips]

Colin Muller wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:54:48PM +0800, Simon Scott wrote:
> 
> >               * You will not have to touch a line of PERL :)
> 
> May I refer you to your earlier note to yourself? :-)

Hmmm, I deleted the earlier posts of this, but if the subject line is to be
taken verbatim, then the solution I'd use would be:

rename 's/ //' filename

Rename is a damn handy utility!! Basically it applies the first parameter as a
regexp to the renaming of any filenames you provide it. This should remove the
first space of a filename. To remove all spaces, you'd use 's/ //g'. (Yes, you
need to know at least a degree of regexp's).

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