[solved]remove backslashes from file names?

Question

Hi!
I have a lot of files that contain backslashes in file name, spread over many many folders.
How do I remove that character from all file names? The approaches / scripts / programs I usually work with can't handle the invalid file names (e.g. loose the '\' and then 'cant stat()' -.-").
Thanks!
edit: Argh... now I've got copies of half of the files without the "\" in the same folders, because copying did work on most but deleting only on some... also multiple \\\ because I messed up one sed line. and "echo" failed to warn me about the result, just dropping a few \ while mv didn't... or something. So confused.
Last edited by whoops (2011-02-22 00:22:58)

Answer 1

sisco311 wrote:#!/usr/bin/env bash
while IFS= read -rd '' file; do
dirname="${file%/*}"
basename="${file##*/}"
mv --backup=numbered -- "${file}" "${dirname}/${basename//\\/_}"
done < <(find /full/path/to/dir -depth -name '*\\*' -print0)
Thanks, that did it!
Don't know what exactly I've been doing wrong, but it seems not to happen any more since I try to do stuff with "while, read, ${}"  instead of "for, $(), echo, sed"
pulce wrote:Not sure that's the point, but backslash is an escape
Yes, I know, that was the problem. That's why those stupid things always keep either disappearing or multiplying - I guess I just suck at keeping track of what program handles them which way and depending on what.
Last edited by whoops (2011-02-22 00:15:30)