Re: remove double quote character from file names
- In reply to: Matthew Seaman : "Re: remove double quote character from file names"
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:36:38 UTC
On 2/11/23 18:28, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 11/02/2023 16:13, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> On 2/11/23 16:45, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 11/02/2023 14:58, Per olof Ljungmark 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. >>> >>> There's no rename command in the base system. Perhaps you meant to >>> install the sysutils/rename pkg but forgot? >>> >> >> No, I thought rename was part of the base system stupid me. So, >> without installing more ports I suppose sed(1) could do the job? >> > > The tools from the base system that you need here are find(1), sed(1), > mv(1) and sh(1). Something like the following _completely_ _untested_ > code: > > ``` > #!/bin/sh > > for oldfname in $( find . -type f -name '*"*' -print ); do > newfname=$( echo $oldfname | sed -e 's/"/in/g' ) > echo mv -nv $oldfname $newfname > done > ``` > > This prints out a list of 'mv' commands to effect the change you want. > Which, as someone else wisely said you should examine closely to ensure > it is actually doing the right thing. Then, when you're satisfied that > it is, change 4 to read: > > mv -nv $oldfname $newfname > > ensure you have good backups, and go for it. > Exactly what I needed, thanks a lot!