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How do you use FIND to globally rename files?

I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.

I tried:

1) find . -type f -name *.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed -e
's/[!]//`" ;

Nope. Does not work.

2) find . -type f -name *.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv "{}" `echo "{}" |
sed -e 's/!//`""
Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is
rife with errors indeed!

:)

Um, help!?!?

Kind regards,
Dan

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Daniel B. Thurman wrote:


How do you use FIND to globally rename files?

I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.

I tried:

1) find . -type f -name *.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed -e
's/[!]//`" ;

Nope. Does not work.

2) find . -type f -name *.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv "{}" `echo "{}" |
sed -e 's/!//`""
Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is
rife with errors indeed!

:)

Um, help!?!?

Kind regards,
Dan
Nope! You get to execute one and only one command in a find statement
but that can be a shell script. You might try putting your pipe into a
script and then executing the script with the find.


John Cornelius

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Daniel B. Thurman wrote:


How do you use FIND to globally rename files?

I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.

I tried:

1) find . -type f -name *.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed -e
's/[!]//`" ;

Nope. Does not work.

2) find . -type f -name *.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv "{}" `echo "{}" |
sed -e 's/!//`""
Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is rife
with errors indeed!

:)


Yes, the second has serious problems with nesting of quotes. Simplest
way is to use the 'rename' command:

find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -exec rename '!' ' {} ;

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On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:06 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >
> > How do you use FIND to globally rename files?
> >
> > I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
> > to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
> > Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
> > so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
> > in them.
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > 1) find . -type f -name *.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed -e
> > 's/[!]//`" ;
> > Nope. Does not work.
> >
> > 2) find . -type f -name *.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv "{}" `echo "{}" |
> > sed -e 's/!//`""
> > Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is rife
> > with errors indeed!
> > :)
>
> Yes, the second has serious problems with nesting of quotes. 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).

poc

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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.

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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.

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Daniel B. Thurman wrote:


How do you use FIND to globally rename files?

I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.

I tried:

1) find . -type f -name *.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed -e
's/[!]//`" ;

Nope. Does not work.

2) find . -type f -name *.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv "{}" `echo "{}" |
sed -e 's/!//`""
Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is rife
with errors indeed!

:)

Um, help!?!?

Kind regards,
Dan



You might want to check this program. I use it all the time ...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/detox

Regards,

John

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