[brlug-general] Recursive batch rename

[Karthik Poobalasubramanian]

What is puryear style?

Karthik

On May 13, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Brad Bendily wrote:

> 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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