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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using MV FIND and -EXEC Post 302313212 by degraff63 on Tuesday 5th of May 2009 03:54:26 AM
Old 05-05-2009
Lightbulb Using MV FIND and -EXEC
Hi,

i would like to rename files in directories and subdirs.
Files contains specific french or strange caracters.
I want to replace all non alpha-numerics by _ (underscore)

First, i made this, but i think the "for" is limited.
How can i do this directly by FIND ?

for file in $(find . -name "*.model"); do
mv "$file" `echo "$file" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_./]/_/g'`
done

If I replace by :

Find . -name "*.model" -exec mv "{}" `echo "{}" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_./]/_/g'` \;
i got lot of lines with "___".

Can somebosy help me ?

THX
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

column

COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME

     column -- columnate lists

SYNOPSIS

     column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The column utility formats its input into multiple columns.  Rows are filled before columns.  Input is taken from file operands, or, by
     default, from the standard input.	Empty lines are ignored.

     The options are as follows:

     -c      Output is formatted for a display columns wide.

     -s      Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.

     -t      Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.  Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
	     the characters supplied using the -s option.  Useful for pretty-printing displays.

     -x      Fill columns before filling rows.

ENVIRONMENT

     The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

	   (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; 
	   printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ; 
	   ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

SEE ALSO

     colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)

HISTORY

     The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BUGS

     Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.

BSD
								   July 29, 2004							       BSD
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