On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:24:13 +0200 Louis-David Mitterrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
LM> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:27:38 -0700 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
PH> Rinehart, Raleigh wrote:
>> >> You can do a mass rename with something like this in a bash shell
>> >> (untested)
>> >> find . -name *.flac | while read f; do mv "$f" `echo "$f" | sed 's/
>> >> /-/g'`; done
>> >>
PH> I love Unix:)
>>
>> This is a bit cleaner and probably faster, since it skips files without
>> spaces in the name. Just give it directory names as arguments.
>>
>> perl -MFile::Find -e'find(sub { return unless m/\s/; $new = $_; $new
>> =~s/\s+/-/g; rename $_ => $new }, @ARGV)' DIR1 DIR2 ...
>>
LM> or if you have zsh and the 'rename' perl utility :
LM> % rename 's/\s+/-/g' **/*.flac
zsh has the zmv function which is even more appropriate, but I thought
that was too esoteric :)
Are there any caveats about using Make with zsh? I've run into some
bash compatibility issues outside of Make, but no problems in Make itself.
Ted
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