Revisions to how to rename multiple files by replacing string in file name? this string contains a "#"

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This is not hard, simply make sure to escape the octothorpe (#) in the name by prepending a reverse-slash (\).

find . -type f -name 'Lucky-*' | while read FILE ; do newfile="$(echo ${FILE} |sed -e 's/\#U00a9/safe/')" ; mv "${FILE}" "${newfile}" ; done

find . -type f -name 'Lucky-*' | while read FILE ; do
    newfile="$(echo ${FILE} |sed -e 's/\\#U00a9/safe/')" ;
    mv "${FILE}" "${newfile}" ;
done

This is not hard, simply make sure to escape the octothorpe (#) in the name by prepending a reverse-slash (\).

find . -type f -name 'Lucky-*' | while read FILE ; do newfile="$(echo ${FILE} |sed -e 's/\#U00a9/safe/')" ; mv "${FILE}" "${newfile}" ; done

This is not hard, simply make sure to escape the octothorpe (#) in the name by prepending a reverse-slash (\).

find . -type f -name 'Lucky-*' | while read FILE ; do
    newfile="$(echo ${FILE} |sed -e 's/\\#U00a9/safe/')" ;
    mv "${FILE}" "${newfile}" ;
done

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occurred Dec 20, 2014 at 10:18

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answered Dec 19, 2014 at 22:10

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This is not hard, simply make sure to escape the octothorpe (#) in the name by prepending a reverse-slash (\).

find . -type f -name 'Lucky-*' | while read FILE ; do newfile="$(echo ${FILE} |sed -e 's/\#U00a9/safe/')" ; mv "${FILE}" "${newfile}" ; done

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