Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('), I want to be > able to create a script which goes to through the folder and all > files and folders under it and renames all the tracks by deleting > every entry of the apostrophe where it encounters them. > E.g. This ain't no game => This aint no game > Mr Brown's Last supper => Mr Browns Last supper > and like that. I want the apostrophe sign to be deleted but everything > else stays the same. > Any suggestions on doing this would really be appreciated. Thanks. Suggestions: 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster 2 - may not handle blanks well either 3 - possible solution below find . -name "*'*.wav" | while read item; do dir=${item%/*} oldname=${item##*/} newname=${oldname//\'/} mv "$dir/$oldname" "$dir/$newname" done Beware typos, I just typed that in... -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines