Re: remove double quote character from file names

Remove the first echo command to actually do any changes. Untested.

for f in $(find . -type f -name '*"*'); do echo mv $f $(echo $f | tr -d
'"'); done


On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 10:23 AM Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 15:59 Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> A little help on the way, I need to find and remove the double quote (")
>> character from all files in a directory structure containing hundreds of
>> thousands of files.
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>> I am sure plenty of you have done this before... I've gotten as far as
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>> find . -type f -name '*"*' -exec rename 's|"|in|g' {} \;
>> find: rename: No such file or directory
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>> The find part works but not renaming so I'm missing something there.
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> The usual utility to rename a file is "mv" (no quotes :-))
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> Does that help?
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>> Thanks,
>> Per
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