Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:43:47 -0500 From: Scott Ballantyne <boyvalue@gmail.com> To: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> Cc: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>, freeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <CAESeg0xnUiFnvRkRGnHAO5TKq-HMyygM0afTNZqHc7zrwV%2BFZQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gK_3htmJZicOLLODS-MZJUTwV%2BfttBzVEqsP3KztDk10A@mail.gmail.com> References: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se> <CADqw_gK_3htmJZicOLLODS-MZJUTwV%2BfttBzVEqsP3KztDk10A@mail.gmail.com>
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Remove the first echo command to actually do any changes. Untested.
for f in $(find . -type f -name '*"*'); do echo mv $f $(echo $f | tr -d
'"'); done
On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 10:23 AM Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 15:59 Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> 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.
>>
>
> The usual utility to rename a file is "mv" (no quotes :-))
>
> Does that help?
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Per
>>
>>
>>
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On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 10:23 AM Michael Schuster <<a href=3D"mailto:mic=
haelsprivate@gmail.com">michaelsprivate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><=
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"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 15:59 Per olof Ljungmark &=
lt;<a href=3D"mailto:peo@nethead.se" target=3D"_blank">peo@nethead.se</a>&g=
t; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0p=
x 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all=
,<br>
<br>
A little help on the way, I need to find and remove the double quote ("=
;) <br>
character from all files in a directory structure containing hundreds of <b=
r>
thousands of files.<br>
<br>
I am sure plenty of you have done this before... I've gotten as far as<=
br>
<br>
find . -type f -name '*"*' -exec rename 's|"|in|g'=
; {} \;<br>
find: rename: No such file or directory<br>
<br>
The find part works but not renaming so I'm missing something there.<br=
></blockquote></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">The usual=
utility to rename a file is "mv" (no quotes :-))=C2=A0</div><div=
dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Does that help?=C2=A0</div><div c=
lass=3D"gmail_quote" dir=3D"auto"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding=
-left:1ex">
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Per<br>
<br>
<br>
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