Convert newlines in filenames to spaces

stripnewlines.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os

# I often find myself opening a lot of PDFs, copying and pasting the title of
# the paper, and renaming the file.  Often these names have newlines in them,
# though, so this script renames them with spaces instead of newlines.

for name in os.listdir(os.curdir):
    if '\n' in name:
        new_name = name.replace('\n', ' ')
        print(repr(name), '->', repr(new_name))
        os.rename(name, new_name)