Using FIND to globally rename files...
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 22:02:24 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 16:35 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> 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.
Fair enough.
poc
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