[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Tethys]

Simon Morris writes:

>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.

	#!/bin/sh

	tmpfile=/tmp/foo.$$

	trap '/bin/rm "$tmpfile"' 0 INT HUP QUIT TERM

	find $HOME/tmp -name '*:*' -print > "$tmpfile"

	while read file
	do
		newfile=`echo "$file" | tr : -`
		mv "$file" "$newfile"
	done < "$tmpfile"

Tet


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