[brlug-general] Recursive batch rename

[Brad Bendily]

I just ran across this as I was looking for some bash syntax.
Thought others might find it useful:

http://www.linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial


bb
ps, posting puryear style!


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Joe Fruchey <joe at fruchey.net> 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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