Re: remove double quote character from file names

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:20:09 +0100 (CET), Sysadmin Lists wrote:
> [...]
> 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.

This is actually a quite clever "ab"use of existing quotes.

Just a friendly sidenote:

Never expect anything. It _might_ be possible that filenames
such as

	foo "bar" blah.txt
	"meow" 123.dat
	doodle "boo" .c++
	-my brain hurts ."tar".gz

exist in the heap of files to be processed. Selecting a good
delimiter for input files is hard. Using the "IFS = \n" approach
works - as long as there are no newlines in filenames (which
I'm not sure could also be allowed)... ;-)



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