On 05/30/2010 04:21 PM, 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.
>
Other suggestions are good, but ...
When using find on files and directories where unknown characters may
be, learn to use -print0
This uses a NULL terminated string, as apposed to a white-space
terminated string, which is the default.
For instance:
$ find /my_dir -type f \( -name \*wav -o -name \*WAV \) -print0 | xargs
--null command
That way you can be sure that 'command' will work upon those file names
regardless of character composition.
Good Luck!
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