Re: [SLUG] recursive %20 to " "

[James Wilkinson <jamesw@nospam.student.unsw.edu.au>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Alex S generated:

>i set up a ftp server and wget (got??) all the files not a prob but it seems to
>have changed all my spaces to %20 and all @nospam. to %40 or whatever.
>I am storing all the data on a fat32 partition i had lying around and i was
>wondering if there is an easy way /script to make all the names back to normal.

find /dosdir -name '*%20*' -exec mv {} `echo {} | sed 's/\%20/ /'` \;

that's a bit messy, i'm not even sure the quoting will work properly...
otherwise you can just do:

for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/\%20/ /'`; done

for each directory you need to -- which is tedious.

I like the first method, but i'm sure someone can find a quicker/shorter
command (/me thows down the gauntlet ;)

-- 
jamesw

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