Hi Terry,
> > > Anyone got a good bash incantation for removing apostrophes in
> > > lots of filenames?
> >
> > find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 prename -n "s/'//g"
>
> I couldn't get that to work as advertised. If I did it as written
> above, it did what you said and printed out what it would do. When I
> removed the '-n' it refused to work at all saying that the file or
> folder didn't exist.
I'd guess apostrophes were in the directory names leading to the files
as well as the file's themselves?
> This may be a red herring, because I also had path length issues on
> the FAT32 partition, so that may have been the cause. However, if so,
> why did it apparently work with the '-n'?
The -n has it merely print what it would do so there's no opportunity
for the filesystem to indicate an error with what's to be attempted;
it's not involved. If a directory had a slash that was also removed by
prename then the destination directory wouldn't exist, e.g. if would
fail as if
led_zepplin's_mothership/208-nobody's_fault_but_mine.mp3
was mv(1)'d to
led_zepplins_mothership/208-nobodys_fault_but_mine.mp3
mv would complain that the directory led_zepplins_mothership didn't
exist; that's right.
> In the end, I used Sean's version, which worked fine once I'd got the
> folder names short enough.
Being in the directory has removed the directory name and any
apostrophe's in them from being altered by the substitution?
Cheers, Ralph.
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