Re: remove double quote character from file names

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> From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>
> Date: Feb 11, 2023, 6:58:50 AM
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: remove double quote character from file names
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Per
> 
> 

Just to throw in an awk-themed solution:
$ ls -1 | awk '/"/ { system("mv -v '\''" $0 "'\'' " $0) }'

$ touch "\"foo bar\"" \"baz\" \".zap\" xyz abc
$ ls -1A
".zap"
"baz"
"foo bar"
abc
xyz
$ ls -1 | awk '/"/ { system("mv -v '\''" $0 "'\'' " $0) }'
".zap" -> .zap
"baz" -> baz
"foo bar" -> foo bar
$ ls -1A
.zap
abc
baz
foo bar
xyz

There's a clever use of the existing double-quotes in the filenames in the renaming.


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