Relabeling all audio files on a server

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

Suggestions:
1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster
2 - may not handle blanks well either
3 - possible solution below

find . -name "*'*.wav" |
while read item; do
   dir=${item%/*}
   oldname=${item##*/}
   newname=${oldname//\'/}
   mv "$dir/$oldname" "$dir/$newname"
done

Beware typos, I just typed that in...

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