Searching and replacing characters -IF THEN - how?

[stla]

I have several files in various sub directories.

Some of the files and characters have 'illegal' characters ín there names like: % & § $

Can anyone tell me how to search for these files, then execute a follow on command that would move these characters to an underscore _ ?

Do I use FIND IF THEN ?

Best regards

 

[PHV]

man find
man tr
man mv

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[stla]

Thank you.

I have looked at the man pages; I am right in thinking tr pertains to the content of a particular file and not the name, because it's names I need to change?

Can you help me with the following (IRIX):

find . -name %* -exec mv..........

 

[PHV]

A starting point:[tt]
find . -name '*[%&§$]*' -type f | while read f; do mv "$f" `echo "$f" | tr '%&§$' '____'`; done[/tt]


Hope This Helps, PH.
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