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Created July 17, 2012 12:20
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bulk-rename-delete.sh
# Review the offending files.
find /path/to/files -name '*:*' -print
# Delete the offending files.
find /path/to/files -name '*:*' -exec rm {} +
# Rename the offending files with an underscore.
find /path/to/files -name '*:*' -exec rename ':' '_' {} +
# For a more efficient version of delete some UNIX variants support (this avoids the need to fork and exec /bin/rm for every single matching file).
# This -delete option is present on MacOS X and on my FC11 system (with findutils-4.4.0).
find /path/to/files -name '*:*' -delete
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