On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:12:53PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> "oj ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres
> > such as: ", ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and
> > characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3.
> 
> for name in *.mp3; do
>   newname=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's/[ "\(\),]//g')
>   echo "Moving \"$name\" to \"$newname\""
>   mv -i "$name" "$newname"
> done

Oh, goodness, that looks complex.

% rename 's/[ ,"()]/_/g' *.mp3

'rename' is almost certainly on your system (ie, it comes with perl, and
it's sorta hard to have a working debian system without perl).

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