[brlug-general] Recursive batch rename

[Nicholas Istre]

Just a quick suggestion, but maybe use find instead of ls.

-Nick


On Tue, May 13, 2008 8:58 am, Joe Fruchey wrote:
> This is a silly script question, but I've never done much scripting,
> so help me out here.
>
> I have this simple renaming script, say
>
> for i in $(ls); do (mv $i $i.old); done
>
> How do I make this thing run in all subdirectories? I'm guessing I
> have to define it as a function and have a script traverse the
> directories, but I don't know how.
>
> Help?
>
> -Joe
>
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