[brlug-general] Recursive batch rename

[Ronnie Gilkey]

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Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote:
> 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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