Re: [LUG] I'm back :-)

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
>
> Please?  Pwetty please?

Not tested on directories, and the brave would do the eval in a "find"
command, the clever would do it without creating a subprocess for each expr.

I suspect you can generalise the "for" statement to a find statement
without any major changes if that is needed.

Oh multiple question marks are a pain, but you can always run it more
than once.

Comes with the usual, "you ran what!?" warranty, if it destroys your
files, ends life as we know it on the planet etc I'll refund the
purchase price ;-)

#!/bin/bash
for AFILE in *\?*
do
 NEWNAME=`expr "$AFILE" : "\(.*\)?"`
 if [ -a $NEWNAME ]
 then
    echo Duplicate file name $NEWNAME would be created
 else
     mv $AFILE $NEWNAME
 fi
done
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