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MacOS command executes command recursively

I've tried a lot of things about object renaming. I found out that the following command proved to be efficient and correct:

for f in *; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | tr ‘:’ '_'`"; done

Unfortunately this command does not work recursivley.

My "target" folder for this command is share / Volumes / Share / Work \ Data /. Is there a "simple" way to do this recursively?

Dan

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Instead of *, which only displays files in the current directory, use find .

one that repeats across directories. Example:



for f in `find .`; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | tr ‘:’ '_'`"; done
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You can use find

with bash replacement:

find . -name "*:*" -exec bash -c 'echo "$0" "${0//:/_}"' {} \;


The above command will dry run the move operation. When you are sure that the files are named the way you want to replace echo

with mv

, to actually move / rename the files recursively.

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