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From: Steve Coile <scoile@nandomedia.com>
To: Vincent Zee <basics@zenzee.cistron.nl>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 08:08:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: converting %20 to a space in directory names
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Vincent Zee wrote:
>I have 5000 directory names with %20 in its names and would like to
>replace them with 1 space.
>I only want to change the directory names and leave its contents
>untouched. Also I need to do this recursively (directories in
>directories).
>I checked google but the answers I found were for files in directories.

Completely untested.  Use at your own risk.

Replace "TOPDIR" with the name of the top of the directory tree.

	find TOPDIR -depth -type d -name '*%20*' -print \
	| while read old
	do
		new="`echo \"${old}\" | sed -e 's/%20/ /g'`"
		( set -x; mv "${old}" "${new}" )
	done

-- 
Steve Coile