Using FIND to globally rename files...
Robert Nichols
rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Fri Jun 20 21:35:51 UTC 2008
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:06 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> Simplest
>> way is to use the 'rename' command:
>>
>> find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -exec rename '!' '' {} \;
>
> Slightly better:
>
> find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -print0 |xargs -0 rename '!' ''
>
> This will work even for filenames with spaces in them (quite common with
> music files).
As will the command I suggested. Arguments to commands invoked by
"-exec" are passed WITHOUT being parsed by a shell.
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