Not that incredibly difficult, but when I do it, if I have space, I
create a tarball of the directories of files to rename.
Then:
find -type f <dir> | \
while read OLDFILE
do
NEWFILE=`convert_file $OLDFILE`
if [ ! -f $NEWFILE ]
then
mv $OLDFILE $NEWFILE
fi
done
create an appropriate "convert_file" shell function.
If it's just a matter of translating characters, pretty easy to do from
the command line. Heck, the shell function can be created from the
command line and used.
Beware my typos :)
On 06/02/2010 01:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>
>>> 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster
>>>
>> One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as
>> an already existing file.
>>
>>
> Here there be tigers ;-)
>
> I did pull out the directory name to prevent renaming that, and additional
> checks could be added to prevent the unlikely duplicate name. In general
> operations of this type are not safe, people do them because they are
> convenient. ;-)
>
>
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