bash error renaming files with spaces - mv target is not a directory

Question

I\'m trying to rename a bunch of files which contain spaces in them, getting rid of the spaces. I thought I found the correct bash command:

for f in *.txt; do m         


        

Answer 1

Because this is the first thing that came up on google when googling this error, I thought I'd add a bit.

This error occurs if you have more than two arguments and the last result is not a directory.

This works:

mv file1.txt output.txt

This does not:

mv file1.txt file2.txt

In my case I was doing: mv prefix_* output_file_name to ensure a downloaded file had a consistant name, but another file had appeared in the directory, restulting in the "mv target is not a directory" error