Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
How do you use FIND to globally rename files?
I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.
I tried:
1) find . -type f -name \*.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo \"{}\" | sed -e
's/[!]//`" \;
Nope. Does not work.
2) find . -type f -name \*.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv \"{}\" `echo \"{}\" |
sed -e 's/\!//`""
Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is rife
with errors indeed!
:)
Yes, the second has serious problems with nesting of quotes. Simplest
way is to use the 'rename' command:
find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -exec rename '!' '' {} \;
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