[wellylug] Odd characters in filenames

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

Jamie Dobbs writes:
>I have just noticed that I have series of files that I want to copy from
>an NFS shared to my PC that have a '%' sign somewhere in their filename
>(eg apex011a%25.jpg). This appears to be causing some problems and I
>wonder if there is any easy way to remove the symbol/rename the
>offending files.

Assuming you're using bash, or at least not a csh type shell, and you
just want to remove the % from files in the current working directory:

    ls *%* | \
	while read file ; \
	do \
	new_file=$(echo $file | sed 's/%//g') ; \
	echo mv $file $new_file ; \
	done

Take out the 'echo' when you're sure it does what you want.
    -- michael.