Relabeling all audio files on a server

Frank Elsner Frank.Elsner at TU-Berlin.DE
Sun May 30 22:31:34 UTC 2010


On Sun, 30 May 2010 22:21:32 +0000 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.

"rename" comes to my mind. "man rename" has details.


--Frank Elsner


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