replacing single quotes in file names

adenardo · 05-27-2005, 10:53 AM

I have a bunch of photos called things like:

ben's birthday.jpg
ben's first day skiing.jpg
haille's dog.jpg

I want to automate the removal of the single quotes, changing their names to:

bens birthday.jpg
bens first day skiing.jpg
hailles dog.jpg

I have used :

for i in *.jpg; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done

to replace spaces in filenames with underscores. I have been unable to modify this to work for single quotes. any help appreciated :-)

trickykid · 05-27-2005, 11:02 AM

Reading the man page for tr, doesn't seem to have a specific option for the back tick.. '

You might have to provide it with the octal number.. from the man page:

\NNN character with octal value NNN (1 to 3 octal digits)

slackie1000 · 05-27-2005, 12:29 PM

hi there,

Quote:

Originally posted by adenardo

for i in *.jpg; do mv "$i" `echo $i | sed "s/'//g"`; done

did you try sed???
regards
slackie1000