Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 13:31:49 -0500 From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <Y%2BffFccEVhLCFBMP@rain.cave> In-Reply-To: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se> References: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se>
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On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>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.
That's nasty. Be careful, keep backups.
I might use a full-on programming language -- maybe Python or Ruby --
to avoid the difficulties of shell parsing and quoting. However, if you
want to do it through a shell, this might be helpful:
<https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html>;
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