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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Debian-style &#171;rename&#187; utility?</H1>
    <B>Johnny A. Solbu</B> 
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    <I>Tue Jan  1 21:58:12 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Sometimes I need to mass rename filenames, to replace norwegian special caracters, to make things work across samba.
On Debian th rename utility user &#171;sed&#187; style replacements, which means one command can replace all instances of a character or string recursively in all subfolders. But on Mandriva and Mageia, I have to run the exact same command multiple times in the same folder to do the same thing. And I can't do it recursively.

One example. Say I want to recursively replace all spaces ' ' with an underscore '_' on all files in every subfolder under &#171;folder2&#187;

On Debian: 
	replace 's/\ /_/g' folder2/

On Mageia:
	cd folder2
	replace ' ' '_' *
	replace ' ' '_' *
	replace ' ' '_' *
	replace ' ' '_' *

	cd subfolder1
	replace ' ' '_' *
	&lt;repeating&gt;
	&lt;repeating&gt;
	......
and so on.

Is there a command line utility on Mageia that can do this te way Debian does this, without resorting to creating a shellscript each time I need to replace something? (I'm no good at scripting, so I've had to do this manually for some 11 years.)

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Johnny A. Solbu
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