On 30/11/2021 15:42, PeterMerchant wrote:
I thought that my backup software Freefilesync was not backing up files with
spaces in the names, so I found online a solution that changed all the spaces
to -.
find . -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /-/g'^C
Now I have just checked my backup and discovered that files with spaces in them
were copied, so my backup so contains two copies of many files
'file-1' and 'file 1'.
Can someone advise me of a script like the above that I can run on my backup
disk to remove the files with spaces in the names?
I expect to hear you shout "NOT A GOOD IDEA" but I'll take the responsibility
for the results, even if I have to clean off the backup and start from new.
Thanks,
Peter
I have not got it right. I tried
find . -name "* *" -type f | rm *.* -v
and it removed all files with extensions, but not the files without extensions,
with no concern over whether there were spaces or not..
removed '1841 census Jane burkey.jpg'
removed '1841-census-Jane-burkey.jpg'
removed '1841 census John Burkey (10).pdf'
removed '1841-census-John-Burkey-(10).pdf'
ls gives: (partly)
'1783 Baptism Richard Burkey' 1789-Baptism-Thomas-Burkey-2 '2015 Burkeys in
Grays 192-com' 'Len Burkey'
1783-Baptism-Richard-Burkey '1824 Baptism Jane Burkey 2'
2015-Burkeys-in-Grays-192-com Len-Burkey
'1783 Baptism Richard Burkey-2' 1824-Baptism-Jane-Burkey-2 'Ancestry Burkey
trees' Messages
P.
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