Subject: Re: anyone have a script to change : to - in file and dir names?
From: Lee Sheridan (lsherida@nccs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 11:30:55 EDT
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:08:18AM -0500, Danny Sauer wrote:
> for F in `find /path/to/files -name '*:*'`; do mv "$F" "`echo $F | sed 's/:/-/g'`"; done
You may want to check out the "--backup" option in GNU mv since you want
to make sure you don't irreversably clobber an existing file.
Or if you're doing it interactively the "-i" option.
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