Question

There are some file names which contain ‘?’
As you know windows has problem with such characters. I want to recursively rename all files in the folders using xarg. For example

09 - grand hall?_10.mp3

should be

09 - grand hall_10.mp3

Answer 1


for file in $(find folder -name '*.mp3'); do
  mv -v "$file" $(echo "$file" | tr ? _);
done

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The above has whitespace issues; this is better:


find folder -name '*.mp3' -exec echo "'{}'" \; |
  while read file; do
    echo -n "mv -v $file " && echo $file | tr ? _;
done | sh


The idea is to find all the files, then echo them in quotes. Pipe the output into a while loop that constructs a mv command for each file, and then pipe that into a new shell.

Ugly, but if you don’t like the answer, you shouldn’t have asked the question. 🙂