You got one answer- here's another:
find . -name "*%*.*" -exec rename 's/\%//g' {} \;
~Ben
Craig White wrote:
> # find . -name "*%*.*"
>
> locates them, how do I pass them to a mv command to rename them without
> the '%' sign (I want to take the percent sign out of the filenames)?
>
> how about if I want to replace the % with an underscore?
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
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