batch rename dropbox conflict files - linux

Question

I have a large number of conflict files generated (incorrectly) by the dropbox service. These files are on my local linux file system.
Example file name = compile (master's conflicted copy 2013-12-21).sh
I would like to rename the file with its correct original name, in this case compile.sh and remove any existing file with that name. Ideally this could be scripted or in such a way to be recursive.
EDIT
After looking over the solution provided and playing around and further research I cobbled together something that works well for me:
#!/bin/bash
folder=/path/to/dropbox
clear
echo "This script will climb through the $folder tree and repair conflict files"
echo "Press a key to continue..."
read -n 1
echo "------------------------------"
find $folder -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do
newname=$(echo "$file" | sed 's/ (.*conflicted copy.*)//')
if [ "$file" != "$newname" ]; then
echo "Found conflict file - $file"
if test -f $newname
then
backupname=$newname.backup
echo " "
echo "File with original name already exists, backup as $backupname"
mv "$newname" "$backupname"
fi
echo "moving $file to $newname"
mv "$file" "$newname"
echo
fi
done

Answer 1

all files from current directory:
for file in *
do
newname=$(echo "$file" | sed 's/ (.*)//')
if [ "$file" != "$newname" ]; then
echo moving "$file" to "$newname"
# mv "$file" "$newname" #<--- remove the comment once you are sure your script does the right thing
fi
done
or to recurse, put the following into a script that i'll call /tmp/myrename:
file="$1"
newname=$(echo "$file" | sed 's/ (.*)//')
if [ "$file" != "$newname" ]; then
echo moving "$file" to "$newname"
# mv "$file" "$newname" #<--- remove the comment once you are sure your script does the right thing
fi
then find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 /tmp/myrename (This is a bit hard to do on the command line without using an extra script because the file names contain blanks).

Answer 2

a small contribution:
I've had a problem this this script. The files with spaces in their name do not made a copy. So I modified line 17 :
-------cut-------------cut---------
if test -f "$newname"
-------cut-------------cut---------

Answer 3

This script displayed above is now outdated; the following works fine with the latest version of Dropbox running on Linux Mint at the time of writing:
#!/bin/bash
#modify this as needed
folder="./"
clear
echo "This script will climb through the $folder tree and repair conflict files"
echo "Press a key to continue..."
read -n 1
echo "------------------------------"
find "$folder" -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do
newname=$(echo "$file" | sed 's/ (.*Case Conflict.*)//')
if [ "$file" != "$newname" ]; then
echo "Found conflict file - $file"
if test -f "$newname"
then
backupname=$newname.backup
echo " "
echo "File with original name already exists, backup as $backupname"
mv "$newname" "$backupname"
fi
echo "moving $file to $newname"
mv "$file" "$newname"
echo
fi
done

Answer 4

You can use the tool Dropbox Conflict Fix. It resolved all my conflicted copy files.