Thank you all for your help. Ralph's script worked like a charm and the whole work took just few minutes. I haven't got a chance to test Laura's second suggestions but I will and let you know. Thanks a lot for your kind assistance. Pawl. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:21 AM Subject: Re: Got stuck >I don't know if you got a satisfactory response to your need yet, but > I decided to try writing a script which did what you asked. I put the > script on my web site at > > http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid/linux/rename_dashes_to_underlines.sh > > This script changes the dashes (-) to underlines (_) in directory and > file names in the entire subdirectory tree from wherever you run it. > If an invalid command line parameter is given (or try -h), a brief > help screen will be displayed. More features could probably be added > to this script, but it should do the trick for what you are looking > for. > > HTH, and have a great year. > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 07:40:42AM -0500, Pawel Loba wrote: >> Hello all. >> I need to rename a number of directories (in the range of 1000) and all >> of >> the mp3 files included in this directories (over 20000). What I want to >> achieve >> is to replace all of the dashes with underline sign. >> Some time ago I found a script to rename files this way within a given >> directory which looks as follows: >> >> for i in *.mp3; >> do >> mv "$i" `echo $i | tr "-" "_"`; >> done >> >> This script works very well within a given directory but doesn't want to >> work from the top directory witch actually includes this nearly 1000 >> subdirectories. >> As an example, I'm getting somthing like this: >> mv: cannot move >> `./Kolakowski-Leszek-Klucz-niebieski/01-klucz-niebieski.mp3' >> to `./Kolakowski_Leszek_Klucz_niebieski/01_klucz_niebieski.mp3': no such >> file >> or directory >> >> It was suggested to me to replace *.mp3 with `find . -name '*.mp3'` >> But unfortunately, it did not work. >> I'm not a programmer just a user who tries to be smart, so, please be >> patient and treat me like a newbie. :-) >> >> hope all of you on here have a great new year. >> Thanks, >> Pawel. > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! > COSEC (x) / SEC (x) = (COTAN (x) / TAN (x)) ^ 2 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
