Renaming Multiple Files

[paragnehete]

Hi Friends,
I have many pdf files which contain "%" sign also in the name. I want to rename that all files by replacing "%" to "-" Its hierarchy of many files and folders. Is there any solution to do this at one time? OR any script for this?

Thanks & Regards
Parag Nehete

[Irithori]

find <PDF_DIRECTORY> -type f -print0 | while read -r -d '' SOURCE ; do DIRECTORY=$(dirname ${SOURCE}); FILENAME=$(basename ${SOURCE}|sed s/%/-/g);echo "OLD : ${SOURCE}   --  NEW : ${DIRECTORY}/${FILENAME}"; done

Replace <PDF_DIRECTORY> with the actual path

If the output looks good, then replace the echo with a mv, and of course get rid of the text part

[paragnehete]

Thank you very much sir......

[Irithori]

yw.
I just noticed, I missed to filter the files more closely via an additional argument to find: -iname "*.pdf"
But seems to be ok already

[paragnehete]

yw.
I just noticed, I missed to filter the files more closely via an additional argument to find: -iname "*.pdf"
But seems to be ok already

Sorry sir by mistake i post this reply. Actually i want to give it for another post. I try the above script, also by adding -iname "*.pdf" but it just echoing the names. Nothing chang in the file names.

[Irithori]

Yep.
First test, then go live.
Need to remind my management of that principle every day

The oneliner was written to be non-destructive, so it just outputs what the names would look like.

That´s why I have written:

If the output looks good, then replace the echo with a mv, and of course get rid of the text part

[paragnehete]

Yes sir it works......but now i have another problem. Some files contain ' sign also. How can i rename that also by replacing ' to -

[Irithori]

With almost the same line.
Modify the sed part accordingly, and protect the ' from being interpreted by the shell by encapsulating the expression in "
You can also extend it to match multiple chars to be replaced with - by using the OR operator and a group.