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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Recursive search for filenames containing .. Post 302577942 by zaxxon on Wednesday 30th of November 2011 10:10:28 AM
Old 11-30-2011
You could then redirect the output of the find to a file "listfile" for example and then use the following to rename them, assuming that every dot (more than one consecutive) being replaced by an underscore ie. 3 dots = 3 underscores:
Code:
while read L; do mv $L $(echo $L|sed '/\.\{2,\}/ {s/\./_/g}'); done < listfile

Just have to be careful that you you don't start your find with a dot as starting directory.
 

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