[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Ian Norton]

heres my attempt :-) you can even give it a target directory :-)

cd $1;while [ `ls -Q|grep -c :` -gt 0 ];do
name=`ls|grep :|head -n 1`
mv -f $name `echo $name|sed -e 's/:/_/g'`
done

bredroll

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:46:48PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:32:42PM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> > Hi GLLUGers,
> > 
> > I have a IRIX server at work providing file access for UNIX,Linux, MAC
> > OS 9 and various versions of Windows.
> > 
> > We have a problem where there are many filenames including colons :
> > 
> > Theses files are readable using Macs and UNIX OS's but the Windows
> > machines won't copy them from the server.
> > 
> > What is the best way to:
> > 
> > a) Find all the files under a certain directory where the filename
> > includes a :
> > 
> > b) Rename these files to replace the : with a - or possibly remove the
> > colon altogether.
> 
> Sounds like another shortest script challenge to me! Hmmmm ... I came
> up with the following rather crufy solution. It doesn't work if filenames
> contain double quotes.
> 
> find -name '*:*' | perl -e 'while(<>){chomp;print "mv \"$_\" "; $_ =~ tr/:/-/; print "\"$_\"\n"}' | less
> 
> Replace 'less' with 'sh' when you want to run the commands.
> 
> Rich.
> 
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