Re: remove double quote character from file names
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:31:49 UTC
On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >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. That's nasty. Be careful, keep backups. I might use a full-on programming language -- maybe Python or Ruby -- to avoid the difficulties of shell parsing and quoting. However, if you want to do it through a shell, this might be helpful: <https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html>