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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 DEBIAN

entagged

ENTAGGED(1)						      General Commands Manual						       ENTAGGED(1)

NAME

       entagged - Java Audio File Tagger

DESCRIPTION

       Entagged provides a convenient way of changing the value of tag fields, either manually, or automatically via the freedb database.

       Entagged  can also do a lot of organization work. You can rename your files from their tag in any way you like, including complex directory
       structures. You can also tag the files from their filename, this avoid copying all the information by hand.

       Best of all, Entagged hides all the different format complexity, with one unique interface, you can work with mixed file  formats  eg.  you
       can use freedb with a mixed album of WMA, MP3 and OGG files without worrying!

Features
       *  Support  for	OGG  Vorbis files - MP3 (id3v1 and id3v2 tags) files - FLAC Files - MPC(MP+) Musepack Files - APE Monkey Audio Files - WAV
       files

       * Handles all files independently of their type (allows to batch files even from mixed types)

       * Edit essential tag information (Artist-Album-Title-TrackNb-Comment-Genre-Year) easily

       * Rename files from their tag using any of the above infos with any pattern

       * Tag files (again using the above fields) from their filename with any pattern

       * Pattern can use filename but also directory name, easy to create a well structured audio files repository

       * freedb search using automatically computed cddb id's (the way it is meant to be used). Simply select some files that represent an  album,
       then query and tag.

       *  freedb  search  using  manually searched cddb id. When entagged can't find any match, you can search freedb for a given artist/album and
       find the correct match yourself, then ask entagged to tag the files.

       * Supports Multi langage (currently only english,french and spanish) (contributors appreciated)

       * Recursive processing of all the above operations, easily !

       * Text transformation: capitalize, uppercase roman numerals, lowercase, and more that can be used either while tagging or renaming.

       * Separate freedb and audioformats libraries that can be used independently by anyone who want to read and/or  write  meta  data  to  audio
       files

DOCUMENTAION

       Please see /usr/share/doc/entagged/readme.html

HOMEPAGE

       http://entagged.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Varun Hiremath <varunhiremath@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								 October 20, 2006						       ENTAGGED(1)
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