[conspire] How automatically replace control (newline) character with space in file & directory names

[Bill Ward]

Oops, I noticed a typo: #! should be $! in the 3rd line.

On 12/4/05, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> opendir DOT, "." or die "Can't read directory: #!\n";
> foreach my $file (readdir DOT) {
>     my $newfile = $file;
>     $newfile =~ s/\n/ /g;
>     next if $newfile eq $file;  # skip files that lack \n
>     if (-e $newfile) {
>          warn "Can't rename $file because $newfile already exists\n";
>     }
>     else {
>         rename $file, $newfile or die "Error renaming $file: $!\n";
>     }
> }
>
> On 12/4/05, Hereon <hereon1 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> > Can someone tell me a way to accomplish this with a command, commands,
> > shell script, or other program?
> >
> > I have some files & directories with names that contain the newline
> > character, \n , 0A hex.
> >
> > [These get created sometimes as I copy & past text from web pages into
> > the filename as I save a webpage, from firefox, to disk.]
> >
> > I wish to replace that newline with a space character, automatically,
> > without doing it by hand for each file.
> >
> > I have figured out one way to locate the files:
> >
> > In the home directory do:
> > ls -QR * | grep '\\n'
> >
> > Then, individually, I can do a locate on part of the file name to get a
> > full path.
> >
> >
> >
> > ====
> > $ ls -QR | grep '\\n' > FilesWithNewline.txt
> >
> > $ cat FilesWithNewline.txt
> >
> > . . . [Many file or directory names listed, like the following lines:]
> >
> > "An elevator to space NASA gives idea a lift\n12 teams vying for
> > $100,000 in prizes in Mountain View article.cgi.html"
> > "An elevator to space NASA gives idea a lift\n12 teams vying for
> > $100,000 in prizes in Mountain View article.cgi_files"
> > "./Engineering/Space/An elevator to space NASA gives idea a lift\n12
> > teams vying for $100,000 in prizes in Mountain View article.cgi_files":
> > "./Engineering/Space/An elevator to space NASA gives idea a lift\n12
> > teams vying for $100,000 in prizes in Mountain View
> > article.cgi_files/B1654090_data":
> >
> > . . .
> >
> > ====
> >
> > So, what's an easy way to search through the file tree & automatically
> > replace the '\n' with a space character?
> > Thanks.
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