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cr0c
Asked: 2013-11-23 00:07:25 +0800 CST

Rename command mistake, files do not show anymore in windows network drives

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I made a mistake with rename command

find . -type f -exec rename 's/[^A-Za-z0-9._]//g' {} +

After that the files are not under their folders as they used to be and every file has . in front of them. Now my customers can not see the files. Once I remove the . then they can see the files.

How can I remove . from the files. Like this:

.finacialyear2008half.doc

to 

finacialyear2008half.doc

Please help me! I need a fast fix.

linux

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    find . -type f -exec rename 's/\.//' '{}' \;

    Think about -n parameter of rename : it just display what it will do after you remove it !

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  2. Assuming you are using bash you can loop through the files replacing first occurrences of /. with / in the filenames of all files in the current folder.

    for filename in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f)
do
  mv -v $filename ${filename/\/.//}
done

    This assumes that you don't need to recursively rename files, and will only work in current directory (-maxdepth 1).

    Disclaimer: always backup your files or at least try with a bunch of test files before performing any actions on your data.

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