sed problem

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi community,

I have millions of files with [ and ] Character.

Now I try to write an easy script that change those characters in an underscore.

Can some one help me?

Many thx

2

Best approach would be to use stream line editor (SED)

cat a1.dat|sed 's/[/_/g' > a2.dat
cat a2.dat|sed 's/]/_/g' > a1.dat
3 
 
sed -e 's/\[/_/g' -e 's/\]/_/g' your_file > new_file
4

it doesn�t help, because the script look into file and make the changes there but I need to change the filename, not the content... but many thanks!

5

Hey!!!

Check out this,

find . -name "*\[*" -o -name "*\]*" |awk '{s=$0;gsub(/[][]/,"_");print "mv " s " " $0;}'|sh

Cheers!
-R

6

wow brilliant!!!!! But one think I really need to get fix!

He renamed me all datas wich are call e.g. test[].txt BUT if he need rename this "[ASG] Asklepios S&APw-dpfalzklinik Germersheim" he gives me the following error message:

sh: line 1: APw-dpfalzklinik: command not found
sh: line 1: APw-dpfalzklinik: command not found

you know why?!

best regards!!!!!

7

Hey,

I think you have white spaces in file name. Isn't it?

Check this out,

find . -name "*\[*" -o -name "*\]*" |awk '{s=$0;gsub(/[][]/,"_");gsub(/[ _]+/,"_");print "mv \"" s "\" \"" $0 "\"";}'|sh

Cheers!
-R