Re: rename files

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: 8 Sep 2004 19:02:49 GMT

In <comp.unix.shell> d0x <dan@no.spam> wrote:
> can any one help me out with this. I know somebody must have done it
> already.
>
> i have a directory with 901 files in it.
> i need a script the renames the files. basically i need it to take
> anything that is not a number,letter, or "." and change it to an "_".
>
> ie. "Charlie's Root.zip" - will become "Charlie_s_Root.zip"
>
>
> perl/sh/bash, whatever, dosn't matter. :)

Assuming there is no leading/trailing whitespaces or newlines,
    /bin/ls -d *[^a-zA-Z0-9_]* | while read i;
        j=${i//[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/_}
        mv "$i" "$j"
    done 

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada

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