How to get rid of bad chrs?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

rikona wrote:

>Just did a backup of new box and got many errors using grsync. Almost
>all were because of 'bad' chrs in the file name ["?: etc]. Some names
>have more than 1 bad chr. Is there a way to safely remove just this
>set of chrs in every file name within a folder/subfolders, and leave
>the rest of the chrs in the file name intact? (safely = no chance of
>losing a file :-)

Yep, but do test it in a safe place (like a new temporary
directory that you create with some example offending files in
it) first.

This command replaces all spaces with underscores in the name of
every file and sub-folder in the current directory, but doesn't
affect the contents of any sub-folders:

rename 's/ /_/g' *

This command replaces all instances of lower-case a with lower-case b
in the name of every file and sub-folder in the current directory, but
doesn't affect the contents of any sub-folders:

rename 's/a/b/g' *

This command replaces all instances of foo with bar in the name of
every file and sub-folder in the current directory, but doesn't
affect the contents of any sub-folders:

rename 's/foo/bar/g' *

And so on.

-- 
Little Girl

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