Re: The rename command…

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/8/27 Ulf Rompe <Ulf.Rompe at icem.com>

> On Mi, 2008-08-27 at 17:44 +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote:
> > You may well do it with mv instead of rename:
> >
> > find . -name "Link to *" | while read name; do mv "$name" "`echo $name |
> sed -e "s/Link to //"`"; done
>
> ...at least if you replace the inner pair of double quotes with single
> quotes...
>
> [x] ulf

No, it worked the way you did.I tried both and it worked in both cases.
Does ` have a special meaning? I tried to replace it with something else,
such as ', but got errors. It looks unnecessary to have this construction (
<blah blah> "`<more blah blah>`" <even more stuff here> - it looks like
either " or ` can be omitted, but it can't; I've tried…)
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