Matthew Anderson wrote:
I have hundreds of files that start with a * (asterisk) for the
filename. I am needing to change the asterisk in every file to a _
(underscore). Does
Anyone know what command I can use to recursively do that? I appreciate
any help anyone can provide me.
Check out the 'find' command to locate the files. Then pipe that that
thru a bit of Perl to create the commands.
$ ls test
*one *three *two
$ find test -name "\**"|perl -e
'foreach(<>){chomp$_;$aa=$_;$aa=~s/\*/_/;print"mv $_ $aa\n";}
mv test/*two test/_two
mv test/*one test/_one
mv test/*three test/_three
pipe to a shell for execution...
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