General :: Script To Mass Rename Files Recursively?

Sep 9, 2009

I need a either a script or perl script that will allow me to mass rename files, folders, and sub folders. I need to replace special chars in the current file names with underscores. I was able to make this happen in a single directory, but not recursively.

Here is what does it in a single directory.

for file in *
do
mv "$file" $(echo "$file" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/_/g')
done

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I'm planning to writing a script to rename files recursively.

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' | while read file; do
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if [ ! "$newfile" == "$oldfile" ]; then
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Code:
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