I need a UNIX command to work on OS X on a Mac. I have
a client who upgraded from OS 9 to OS X on her mac. She
has a huge number of files with "/" and other special
characters. I need to remove these so she can use a file
server that doesn't allow for those special characters. Is
there a UNIX based script or command to just replace
these special characters in the file names without having
to specifically call out each of the files individually?
THANKS!
Corey

You can do something like this :

#
# Rename files in current directory
# Chars not alphanumeric or '_' or '.' are
# replaced by "_"
#
for file in *
do
   mv "$file" $(echo "$file" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/_/g')
done

Jean-Pierre.

OK...I tried this script, but I get "Illegal Variable Name"
error. I'm thinking I'm missing something here. My UNIX
is not Grade A...more like Grade C. Do I need to change
something in this script to match the file names? All the
file names are different and titles vary greatly.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Corey

Maybe

#
# Rename files in current directory
# Chars not alphanumeric or '_' or '.' are
# replaced by "_"
#
for file in *
do
   mv "$file" `echo "$file" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/_/g'`
done

Jean-Pierre.

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