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shimage

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 17

removing double quotes from filenames

I'm trying to use zmv to remove double quotes from a bunch of filenames, but I can't seem to figure it out and my google-fu isn't good enough either. Mostly what I've been trying are variations on

zmv -n '(**/)*"*' '$1${2//"/}'

but I keep getting a syntax error in the second half (first half seems to be working fine). Thanks for any help you might have.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,326

Re: removing double quotes from filenames

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FitzJac

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 234

Re: removing double quotes from filenames

Something like this:

for file in *\"; do mv "$file" "`echo "$file" | sed -e 's/"//g'`"; done

Last edited by FitzJac (2012-07-28 21:02:18)

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shimage

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 17

Re: removing double quotes from filenames

So it turns out I'm retarded. I don't know what I was thinking sorry.

ehmicky

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Registered: 2012-02-07

Posts: 10

Re: removing double quotes from filenames

Hi,

Try :

$ rename \" "" *

If you want to do it recursively :

$ shopt -s globstar
$ rename \" "" **

Last edited by ehmicky (2012-08-03 22:59:16)

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