Re: remove double quote character from file names
- In reply to: Kurt Hackenberg : "Re: remove double quote character from file names"
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:40:27 UTC
On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> wrote: > 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> > > My way. Doesn't account for spaces in filenames, but that's easily added with -print0 flags to find and -0 flags to xargs: ls *\"* | perl -lne '$n=$_;$n=~tr/"//d;rename($_,$n);' ~Paul -- __________________ :(){ :|:& };: