On 31Jan2007 13:38, Stephen Carville <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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...
DON'T!
You need to escape the asterisk before doing this. And if the files have
funny chars you need to do more. A simplistic first cut would be to
generate commands like this:
mv 'test/*two' 'test/_two'
Not perfect, but much much safer.
Then think about the consequences of renaming a directory during the
process (which your script will try to do as written).
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