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Old 10-25-2012
[solved]removing characters from a mass of file names
I found a closed thread that helped quite a bit. I tried adding the URL, but I can't because I don't have enough points... ?


Modifying the syntax to remove [ ] ! ~

Code:
find . -type f -name '*[\[\]~\!]*' |
   while IFS= read -r; do
     mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY//[\[\]~\!]}";
   done

These messages are presented and nothing gets renamed:
Quote:
mv: rename ./One Piece 423 Hd ,720p.mp4 ~bY TzaTziki ~ [non!english!subs] - 8517336 bytes - [TzaTziki] One 423/[TzaTziki]_One_Piece_423_HD.sfv to ./One Piece 423 Hd ,720p.mp4 bY TzaTziki nonenglishsubs - 8517336 bytes - TzaTziki One 423/TzaTziki_One_Piece_423_HD.sfv: No such file or directory
I thinking it's because it's mv'ing the file in the directory with what would be the new directory name BEFORE the directory was renamed. In the end, I need to rename the directories AND the files within.

Thanks!!

---------- Post updated at 10:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:12 PM ----------

Go ahead and close this thread. Found another thread and came up with this:

Code:
find . -depth -name "*[\[\]\~\!]*" |     # Find all files or folders containing 'bad' characters.
while read FILEDIR                            # Read them line-by-line.
do
        DIR="${FILEDIR%/*}"                   # Get the folder its inside
        FILE="${FILEDIR/*\/}"                 # Get the plain name.
        NEWFILE="${FILE//[\[\]\~\!]/_}" # Substitute _ for bad things.
        mv "$DIR/$FILE" "$DIR/$NEWFILE"  # Rename it.
done

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jim mcnamara
# 2  
Old 10-25-2012
Thanks for posting your solution.
# 3  
Old 10-25-2012
special character u'\u014d'
So, the whole point of coming up with this is because a processing script is returning:

Quote:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "cherrypy/_cprequest.pyc", line 660, in respond
File "cherrypy/lib/encoding.pyc", line 193, in __call__
File "cherrypy/_cpdispatch.pyc", line 25, in __call__
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 1650, in processEpisode
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/processTV.py", line 93, in processDir
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/processTV.py", line 104, in processDir
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/postProcessor.py", line 788, in process
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/postProcessor.py", line 261, in _move
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/postProcessor.py", line 239, in _combined_file_operation
File "/Applications/SickBeard.app/Contents/Resources/sickbeard/encodingKludge.py", line 56, in ek
File "encodings/mac_roman.pyc", line 12, in encode
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u014d' in position 31: character maps to <undefined>

I found a thread on their support site that brackets botch the script. So, the above solution remove the brackets and other characters. It's started happening again and I think there more to this:

Quote:
u'\u014d'

I found this:
ht tp://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/14d/index.htm

But how can I implement that special character into the removal script?
 
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