rename files challenge...

[June Tate]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:17:11AM -0700, 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?

Try something like this:

    foo at bar:~$ for i in $(find . -name "*%*.*"); do \
    > newname=$(echo $i |sed s/%/_/); \
    > mv $i $newname; \
    > done

This grabs the entire list of files and for each file in the list
generates a new filename by replacing the % with an _, and then mv-ing
it.

Hope that helps. =o)

-- 
June Tate * http://www.theonelab.com * june at theonelab.com
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