Relabeling all audio files on a server

[Phil Meyer]

On 05/30/2010 04:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote:
> I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials.
> Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew
> problems with the naming convention used by default.
> For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('), I want to be
> able to create a script which goes to through the folder and all
> files and folders under it and renames all the tracks by deleting
> every entry of the apostrophe where it encounters them.
> E.g. This ain't no game =>  This aint no game
>         Mr Brown's Last supper =>  Mr Browns Last supper
> and like that. I want the apostrophe sign to be deleted but everything
> else stays the same.
> Any suggestions on doing this would really be appreciated. Thanks.
>    


Other suggestions are good, but ...

When using find on files and directories where unknown characters may 
be, learn to use -print0

This uses a NULL terminated string, as apposed to a white-space 
terminated string, which is the default.

For instance:

$ find /my_dir -type f \( -name \*wav -o -name \*WAV \) -print0 | xargs 
--null command

That way you can be sure that 'command' will work upon those file names 
regardless of character composition.

Good Luck!