From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing file names with "--" to "-" recursively Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:45:00 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21977"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: wael-zwaiter@gmx.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 07:47:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lDiX5-0005cm-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 07:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54376 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDiX4-0005k8-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDiWJ-0005k0-V4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:32849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDiWH-0004jJ-Sr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.154.232]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E1BF.00000000603201E6.00001B11; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:47:02 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: wael-zwaiter@gmx.com, Help Gnu Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128172 Archived-At: * wael-zwaiter@gmx.com [2021-02-21 06:07]: > > 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. The command: $ rename 's/--/-/g' * does not work on my side as it works on yours, maybe it is different software. You do as following in the top directory: for i in $(find . -type f -iname "*--*"); do mv $i $(echo $i | sed -e "s/--/-/"); done You may alias the command to: alias renamedashes='for i in $(find . -type f -name "*--*"); do mv $i $(echo $i | sed -e "s/--/-/"); done' and invoke it with $ renamedashes in future.