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.

Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster >> > One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as > an already existing file. > > Here there be tigers ;-) I did pull out the directory name to prevent renaming that, and additional checks could be added to prevent the unlikely duplicate name. In general operations of this type are not safe, people do them because they are convenient. ;-)

1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster

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.

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.