Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:57:06 -0500 From: mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <2e9d1a3d-f826-6dd0-9992-25c7d990c666@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se> References: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se>
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On 2/11/2023 9:58 AM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A little help on the way, I need to find and remove the double quote
> (") character from all files in a directory structure containing
> hundreds of thousands of files.
>
> I am sure plenty of you have done this before... I've gotten as far as
>
> find . -type f -name '*"*' -exec rename 's|"|in|g' {} \;
> find: rename: No such file or directory
>
> The find part works but not renaming so I'm missing something there.
>
I know lots of a good suggestions already on this thread, but something
to keep in mind for future considerations is the port sysutils/detox.
Its very handy for situations like this and ones much more convoluted.
---Mike
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