One of my client’s gave me a couple audio files to add to his website. I do this through an index in a database. However, since they have apostrophes, they cause broken links.
I wanted a command to rename all of the files by removing all apostrophes while retaining all other characters in the file name.
I am using and Ubuntu server.
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First, cd into the directory that has the files (or folders with the files). Do NOT do this from / or /root/
next, just run this:
bad_names=$(find . -name "*'*");for i in `echo $bad_names`; do new_name=$(echo "$i"| sed -e "s/'//g"); echo "Moved $i to $new_name"; mv "$i" $new_name;done
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