Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 13:40:27 -0500 From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> To: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <CAFbbPuh1cAEVAxQe0XBwkdTh2KTK3XUGEZcYGv8_7sLDzi5--w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Y%2BffFccEVhLCFBMP@rain.cave> References: <d83c93ad-0eac-d41a-c7db-79a1e1bc62d8@nethead.se> <Y%2BffFccEVhLCFBMP@rain.cave>
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On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> wrote:
> 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>;
>
>
My way. Doesn't account for spaces in filenames, but that's easily added
with -print0 flags to find and -0 flags to xargs:
ls *\"* | perl -lne '$n=$_;$n=~tr/"//d;rename($_,$n);'
~Paul
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM Kurt Hackenberg <<a href="mailto:kh@panix.com">kh@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:<br>
<br>
>A little help on the way, I need to find and remove the double quote (")<br>
>character from all files in a directory structure containing hundreds of<br>
>thousands of files.<br>
<br>
That's nasty. Be careful, keep backups.<br>
<br>
I might use a full-on programming language -- maybe Python or Ruby -- <br>
to avoid the difficulties of shell parsing and quoting. However, if you <br>
want to do it through a shell, this might be helpful:<br>
<br>
<<a href="https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html</a>><br>;
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>My way. Doesn't account for spaces in filenames, but that's easily added with -print0 flags to find and -0 flags to xargs:<br><br clear="all">
ls *\"* | perl -lne '$n=$_;$n=~tr/"//d;rename($_,$n);'
<br><br></div><div>~Paul</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">__________________<br><br>:(){ :|:& };:</div></div></div>
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