Heh, for some reason the topic reply notification from this thread reminded me of this, so I had to share:

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

-G

vim all the way! If it's configured with syntax hilighting and search hilighting, and you can get used to the commands, it's the best ever for command line html/php/any scripting language you can...

Hmm... well, technically you could run it all on one line like this:


for FILE in $(find . -type f -name '*4%3a*'); do NEWNAME=$(echo $FILE|sed s/'4%3a'//); mv -v $FILE $NEWNAME; done


but...

Forgot to add comments!


#!/bin/sh

# first we need a list to work from. the
# "for" statement will loop through the results
# of our "find" command, using each result in turn
# as "$FILE"....

Usually we use the "mv" (move) command to rename a file. Try something like this!


#!/bin/sh

for FILE in $(find . -type f -name '*4%3a*'); do
NEWNAME=$(echo $FILE|sed s/'4%3a'//)
mv -v...