Re: remove double quote character from file names
- In reply to: Per olof Ljungmark : "remove double quote character from file names"
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:57:06 UTC
On 2/11/2023 9:58 AM, 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.
>
I know lots of a good suggestions already on this thread, but something
to keep in mind for future considerations is the port sysutils/detox.
Its very handy for situations like this and ones much more convoluted.
---Mike