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). -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;