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Re: Changing file names with "--" to "-"
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Changing file names with "--" to "-" |
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Date: |
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 04:33:17 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
wael-zwaiter wrote:
> I have a lot of files and want to change "--" to "-".
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> Am using
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> rename 's/--/-/g' *
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> on the current directory.
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> How can I recursively go through all sub directories and do
> the changes for files only.
In zsh you can use **/* to get recursion, then exclude
directories from the match with the glob qualifier (.), i.e.
**/*(.)
So try
$ rename 's/--/-/g' **/*(.)
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