Find And Replace Folder Names On Server

Question

I can't seem to find a way to do this on my dedicated server.

I've got a huge directory of folders and some of then contain 3 dashes like '---' which I need to find and replace with just one dash.

Is there an easy way to do a find and replace right on my server? I really don't want to have to download all the folders and do it on my desktop and re-upload them.

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

find  ./  -name '*'  -exec  rename  's/---/-/g'  {}  \;

* HAS NOT BEEN TESTED

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