Script for mac-e mailing list to remove ' 2' from end of all filenames. EDIT: to remove extra asterisk from find command

remove ' 2' from filenames

#!/bin/bash

while read -r -d $'\0' file; do
    mv "${file}" "${file% *}"
done < <(find . -iname "* 2" -print0)




# here is what it looks lik on the command line

$ touch file{1..10}' 2'
$ touch otherfiles{1..10}
$ ls
file1 2      file2 2      file4 2      file6 2      file8 2      otherfiles1  otherfiles2  otherfiles4  otherfiles6  otherfiles8
file10 2     file3 2      file5 2      file7 2      file9 2      otherfiles10 otherfiles3  otherfiles5  otherfiles7  otherfiles9
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file1 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file10 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file2 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file3 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file4 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file5 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file6 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file7 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file8 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file9 2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles1
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles10
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles3
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles4
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles5
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles6
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles7
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles8
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles9
$ while read -r -d $'\0' file; do
> mv "${file}" "${file% *}"
> done < <(find . -name "* 2" -print0)
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file1
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file10
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file3
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file4
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file5
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file6
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file7
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file8
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 file9
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles1
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles10
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles2
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles3
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles4
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles5
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles6
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles7
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles8
-rw-r--r--  1 ryan  staff  0 Apr 12 10:23 otherfiles9
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