Got stuck

[Pawel Loba]

Thank you all for your help. Ralph's script worked like a charm and the 
whole work took just few minutes. I haven't got a chance to test Laura's 
second suggestions but I will and let you know.
Thanks a lot for your kind assistance.
Pawl.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: Got stuck


>I don't know if you got a satisfactory response to your need yet, but
> I decided to try writing a script which did what you asked.  I put the
> script on my web site at
>
> http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid/linux/rename_dashes_to_underlines.sh
>
> This script changes the dashes (-) to underlines (_) in directory and
> file names in the entire subdirectory tree from wherever you run it.
> If an invalid command line parameter is given (or try -h), a brief
> help screen will be displayed.  More features could probably be added
> to this script, but it should do the trick for what you are looking
> for.
>
> HTH, and have a great year.
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 07:40:42AM -0500, Pawel Loba wrote:
>> Hello all.
>> I need to rename a number of directories (in the range of 1000) and all 
>> of
>> the mp3 files included in this directories (over 20000). What I want to
>> achieve
>> is to replace all of the dashes with underline sign.
>> Some time ago I found a script to rename files this way within a given
>> directory which looks as follows:
>>
>> for i in *.mp3;
>> do
>> mv "$i" `echo $i | tr "-" "_"`;
>> done
>>
>> This script works very well within a given directory but doesn't want to
>> work from the top directory witch actually includes this nearly 1000
>> subdirectories.
>> As an example, I'm getting somthing like this:
>> mv: cannot move 
>> `./Kolakowski-Leszek-Klucz-niebieski/01-klucz-niebieski.mp3'
>> to `./Kolakowski_Leszek_Klucz_niebieski/01_klucz_niebieski.mp3': no such
>> file
>> or directory
>>
>> It was suggested to me to replace *.mp3 with `find . -name '*.mp3'`
>> But unfortunately, it did not work.
>> I'm not a programmer just a user who tries to be smart, so, please be
>> patient and treat me like a newbie. :-)
>>
>> hope all of you on here have a great new year.
>> Thanks,
>> Pawel.
>
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