[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Tethys]

Richard Cohen writes:

>for i in $(find <dirname> -type f -name *:*)

The *:* needs to be quoted to prevent failures when the top level
directory contains a filename with a colon.

>	echo mv $i "$newname"

This won't handle filenames containing spaces -- quite likely if they
were created by Mac or Windows users. You need to quote the "$i" (and
the setting of $newname a couple of lines earlier).

Tet


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