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Matching a special character at begining of line

Ram-Z
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Aug 10, 2009, 2:42 PM

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Matching a special character at begining of line	Can't Post

Hi,
I'm having some trouble with removing a bunch of '+' at the beginning of a string.
I'm using the linux bash command 'rename' which uses pearl regex.

Basically I have some files:

+foo+bar.txt
foo+bar.txt

where I want to remove the + in front and replace any + in the middle with a space.

I tried to remove the first + with:

Code

rename "s/^\+//" *.txt

Code

rename "s/\A\+//" *.txt

and

Code

rename "s/\A\Q+//" *.txt

but everything returns:

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Unknown option: e 
Unknown option: e 
Unknown option: e 
Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]

with "e" being the first letter after the + of the three files starting with +

Any help would be appreciated

Ram-Z
New User

Aug 11, 2009, 7:49 PM

Post #2 of 2 (4942 views)

Re: [Ram-Z] Matching a special character at begining of line [In reply to]	Can't Post

Nervermind, it wasnt regex related. Linux was considering the file names as another argument...

Fixed it with:

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rename 's/^[+]//' -- *.txt

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