Re: remove double quote character from file names

On 11/02/2023 14:58, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A little help on the way, I need to find and remove the double quote (")
> character from all files in a directory structure containing hundreds of
> thousands of files.
> 
> I am sure plenty of you have done this before... I've gotten as far as
> 
> find . -type f -name '*"*' -exec rename 's|"|in|g' {} \;
> find: rename: No such file or directory
> 
> The find part works but not renaming so I'm missing something there.

There's no rename command in the base system. Perhaps you meant to
install the sysutils/rename pkg but forgot?

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