replace a 'space' char in filename with an underscore

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Published on 2010-04-16T08:12:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 8:13 UTC
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I have a bunch of files in a directory with 'spaces' in the filename.

How do I perform a bulk rename of all filenames with 'spaces' and replace them with an '_' char.

Looking at the other solutions, I've tried the following command w/o success:

find . -name '* *' -exec rename ' ' '_' {} +

find: rename: No such file or directory

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