replacing characters

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1

Hi, I have a script for replacing bad characters in filenames

for f in *; do mv $f `echo $f | tr '+' '_'`
done;

this replaces + for _

But I need to replace all bad characters ? / % + to _
Pls how can i do this in one script ?

2

Perhaps the following

for file in *
do
  mv "$file" $(echo $file | sed -e "s/[+%]/_/g")
done

Or within your tr you could mention

tr '+%?' '___'. Not tested though.

3

thx, the first script works

tr '+%?' '___'. doesnt work

4

With zsh:

% echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.3.4
% ls               
a?b  a%c  a+d
% autoload -U zmv
% zmv '*' '${f//[?%+]/_}' 
% ls
a_b  a_c  a_d

You cannot have '/' in the filename ...

Otherwise with bash/ksh93:

for f in *;do mv -- "$f" "${f//[?%+]/_}";done