Re: remove double quote character from file names

On 2/11/23 16:43, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> 
> 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

Produced  "No such file or directory" errors.

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 10:23 AM Michael Schuster 
> <michaelsprivate@gmail.com <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 15:59 Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se
>     <mailto:peo@nethead.se>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi all,
> 
>         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.
> 
>         I am sure plenty of you have done this before... I've gotten as
>         far as
> 
>         find . -type f -name '*"*' -exec rename 's|"|in|g' {} \;
>         find: rename: No such file or directory
> 
>         The find part works but not renaming so I'm missing something there.
> 
> 
>     The usual utility to rename a file is "mv" (no quotes :-))
> 
>     Does that help?
> 
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Per
> 
>