Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:13:19 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <b20f01d5-1c8b-c0d6-cbc1-3bd2f1070335@nethead.se> In-Reply-To: <105187d9-2510-9209-8b35-c273aa20076b@qeng-ho.org> References: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se> <105187d9-2510-9209-8b35-c273aa20076b@qeng-ho.org>
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On 2/11/23 16:45, Arthur Chance wrote:
> 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?
>
No, I thought rename was part of the base system stupid me. So, without
installing more ports I suppose sed(1) could do the job?
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