Using FIND to globally rename files...

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Jun 20 16:06:03 UTC 2008


How do you use FIND to globally rename files?

I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.

I tried:

1) find . -type f -name \*.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo \"{}\" | sed -e 
's/[!]//`" \;
    Nope.  Does not work.

2) find . -type f -name \*.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv \"{}\" `echo \"{}\" | 
sed -e 's/\!//`""
    Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is 
rife with errors indeed!
    :)

Um, help!?!?

Kind regards,
Dan




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