I'd like to find all files that contains the string " Of ", replacing with " of", except for strings with a hyphen before 'Of' : "- Of ".
First I had this command :
find . -depth -name "* Of *" -exec bash -c 'for f; do base=${f##*/}; mv -- "$f" "${f%/*}/${base// Of / of }"; done' _ {} +
But I want to use regex for the "- Of " exclusion.
How can I do that ?
I'm confused with sed regex.
Using
find . -regextype sed -regex '.* Of *'
it only founds path ending with Of.
Patrick
Try doing this with rename :
$ find . -depth -name "* Of *" -exec rename -n 's|(?<!-)\s+Of|of|' {} +
from the shell prompt. It's very useful, you can put some perl code like I does in a substitution.
You can remove the -n (dry-run mode switch) when your tests become valids.
I use negative look behind advanced REGEX
There are other tools with the same name which may or may not be able to do this, so be careful.
If you run the following command (linux)
$ file $(readlink -f $(type -p rename))
and you have a result like
.../rename: Perl script, ASCII text executable
then this seems to be the right tool =)
If not, to make it the default (usually already the case) on Debian and derivative like Ubuntu :
$ sudo update-alternatives --set rename /path/to/rename
(replace /path/to/rename to the path of your perl's rename command.
If you don't have this command, search your package manager to install it or do it manually
Last but not least, this tool was originally written by Larry Wall, the Perl's dad.
