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English%20Brochure%20002-1[1]

English Brochure 002-1[1]

~/$ cat filename
file%20name
~/$ sed 's/%20/ /g' <filename
file name
~/$ perl -e 'while(<>){$_=~s/%([\da-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ige;print}' filename
file name

rename "s/%20/ /g" *

cd $FOLDER
for i in * ; do
   mv $i "$((echo $i|sed 's/%20/ /g')"
done

cd $FOLDER
for i in * ; do
   export i
   mv $i  "$(perl -e '{$ENV{i}=~s/%([\da-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ige;print $ENV{i}}')"
done

~/$ rename '%20' \  'English%20Brochure%20002-1[1]'
ls English*
English Brochure%20002-1[1]

rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]

rename "s/%20/ /g" asdf%20asdfasdf%20fdasdf
$ ls asd*
asdf asdfasdf fdasdf

find . -name \*%20\* -exec ksh -c 'mv $0 $( echo $0|sed 's/%20//g' )' {} \;

find . -name \*%20\* -exec ksh -c 'mv $0 $( echo $0|sed 's/%20/ /g' )' {} \;

sed: command garbled: s/%20/
mv: cannot access /g