How to change automatically the file names

MAKY · #1 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005

Hi all,

I need to replace automatically all special characters of one filename with some corresponding characters

For example >

ö --> oe

ä --> ae

....

If the special character comes more than one time, then all the coccuerences have to be replaced.

I would like to have a acript, which could do the replacement through the whole file system.

Can somebody help me please

Thanks in advance

MAKY

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005

Try this.

Code:

#! /bin/sh

for file in `find /dir/to/search -name '*.*'`
do
PATH=${file%/*}
FILE_OLD=${file#$PATH}
FILE_NEW={FILE_OLD//<special-char>/<replacement>}
mv ${PATH}/${file} ${PATH}/${FILE_NEW}
done

Not tested tho'.

<special-char> is the char you wish to replace.
<replacement> is the replacement.

Vino

MAKY · #3 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005

Vino, thanks for the quick reply, but I couldn't get any result yet.
I have written your script in the following form, making the test for replacing all the z letters with d letters

#! /bin/sh

for file in `find /tmp/ -name '*.*'`
do
PATH=${file%/*}
FILE_OLD=${file#$PATH}
FILE_NEW={FILE_OLD//<z>/<d>}
mv ${PATH}/${file} ${PATH}/${FILE_NEW}
done

The script doesn't give any error but also doesn't replace any charecters.

Thanks in advance
MAKY

vino · #4 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005

Code:

#! /bin/sh

for file in `find /tmp/ -name '*.*'`
do
PATH=${file%/*}
FILE_OLD=${file#$PATH}
FILE_NEW=${FILE_OLD//z/d}
mv ${PATH}/${file} ${PATH}/${FILE_NEW}
done

vino

MAKY · #5 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005

Sorry, but I still do not receive any result.
Did you try it ay your system and get the result ?
Thanks again
MAKY

vino · #6 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005

Code:

#! /bin/sh

for file in `find /tmp/ -name '*.*'`
do
PATH=${file%/*}
FILE_OLD=${file#$PATH/}
FILE_NEW=${FILE_OLD//z/d}
mv ${file} ${PATH}/${FILE_NEW}
done

Vino

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