Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 14:45:49 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: remove double quote character from file names Message-ID: <20230212144549.82a9c24e.freebsd@edvax.de> 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, 11 Feb 2023 13:31:49 -0500, Kurt Hackenberg 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>;
And just in case other special characters appear:
Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames:
Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems
by David A. Wheeler
2018-06-24 (originally 2009-03-24)
https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
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