Using FIND to globally rename files...

[Robert Nichols]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:06 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>>     Simplest
>> way is to use the 'rename' command:
>>
>>     find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -exec rename '!'  ''  {} \;
> 
> Slightly better:
> 
> find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -print0 |xargs -0 rename '!'  ''
> 
> This will work even for filenames with spaces in them (quite common with
> music files).

As will the command I suggested.  Arguments to commands invoked by
"-exec" are passed WITHOUT being parsed by a shell.

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