Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 15:45:00 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <105187d9-2510-9209-8b35-c273aa20076b@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se> References: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se>
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On 11/02/2023 14:58, 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.
There's no rename command in the base system. Perhaps you meant to
install the sysutils/rename pkg but forgot?
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