From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing file names with "--" to "-"
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 04:33:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czwu3xj6.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-cd206881-a2d4-4a2d-b47e-57feda967505-1613876784264@3c-app-mailcom-bs01
wael-zwaiter wrote:
> I have a lot of files and want to change "--" to "-".
>
> Am using
>
> rename 's/--/-/g' *
>
> on the current directory.
>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-21 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-21 3:06 Changing file names with "--" to "-" wael-zwaiter
2021-02-21 3:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-02-21 6:45 ` Changing file names with "--" to "-" recursively Jean Louis
2021-02-21 7:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-21 12:42 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-21 13:41 ` ken
2021-02-22 6:36 ` David Masterson
2021-02-22 4:42 ` Changing file names with "--" to "-" Robert Thorpe
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