Needed to rename all directories and files in a deep directory structure to remove spaces and ugly characters in their
names, in order to build a playlist, take a look at this recursive bash shell:
#!/usr/bin/bash
DIR=/200gb/MP3
FTYPE=mp3
renamedir ()
{
cd
find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -name “??*” | while read d; do
DN=`echo “$d” | sed “s/&/And/g;s/-//g;s/ //g;s/(//g;s/)//g;s/[/
/g;s/]//g;s/’//g” | tr -s ‘_’`
if [ “$d” != “$DN” ];then
echo “— `pwd` $d”
mv “$d” $DN
fi
renamedir
$DN
cd ..
done
}
echo ” —- Recursively clean directories”
renamedir $DIR
echo ” —- Now clean files”
cd $DIR
find . -type f -iname “*.$FTYPE” | while read f;do
FN=`echo “$f”| sed “s/&/And/g;s/-//g;s/ //g;s/(//g;s/)//g;s/[//g;s/]/
/g;s/’//g” | tr -s ‘_’`
if [ “$f” != “$FN” ];then
echo “— $f”
mv “$f” $FN
fi
done
echo “done.”
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