How to change spaces in filenames

I would like to change all spaces in filename to dashes but can't
seem to get it working. The sed part works ok.

cd target_tree
for name in "`find . -maxdepth 99`"; do
mv "$name" "$name" | sed 's/\ /-/g'
done

When testing the above with replacement echo statements, I get the
strange result that the the word "command_is" only occurs once at the
beginning of the $name list and the final sed command never appears at
all.

do
echo "command_is "$name" `"$name" |sed '/\ /-/g'`"
done


I also tried with tr but cannot figure out how to make tr operate on
my $name variable - it seems to insist on a file.

Larry

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