[techtalk] filename special characters

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:25:31PM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
ktb thought:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:45:20PM -0800, Dennis Wheeler wrote:
> >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > rm "file[2].txt"
> > > will remove the offending file.
> > > kent
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > That's true, quoting the filename will let me remove it, but in this case I
> > don't want to remove the file, I want to rename it by removing the '[*]'
> > from the filename. And there are a lot of them in several directories.
> > 
> > Verifying that the rename files are unique in thier own folders is a
> > seperate problem that I can solve once I'm able to search and replace the
> > '[]' characters.
> > 
> 
> find . -name "*\[*\]*" -print
> 
And don't forget

find . -name "*\[*\]*" -exec rm {} \;

In case you get a filename that you cannot enter at the commandline, find
should be able to delete it anyhow?

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