<div dir="ltr">2008/8/27 Ulf Rompe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ulf.Rompe@icem.com">Ulf.Rompe@icem.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mi, 2008-08-27 at 17:44 +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote:<br>
> You may well do it with mv instead of rename:<br>
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> find . -name "Link to *" | while read name; do mv "$name" "`echo $name | sed -e "s/Link to //"`"; done<br>
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</div>...at least if you replace the inner pair of double quotes with single<br>
quotes...<br>
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[x] ulf</blockquote><div></div><div>No, it worked the way you did.I tried both and it worked in both cases.</div><div>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…)</div>
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