Relabeling all audio files on a server

[Mikkel]

On 05/30/2010 05:21 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.

You may find the tr command handy in building the script.

For a single directory, you could start with something like this
(not tested):

for i in * ; do
  j=$(echo $i | tr -d \' )
  mv "$i" "$b"
done

You need the quotes around $i and $j because of spaces in the name.
This script will also remove the 's from directory names.

Mikkel
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