Joe,
I would try something along these lines -- for example if I needed to
make a backup of all my .pl files:
find /perldir -type f -name "*.pl" -exec cp '{}' '{}.bak' \;
This will copy all files in that directory and the subdirectory for you.
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Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
Joe,
for i in $(find . -type f); do mv $i $i.old; done;
This should work from the command line. I also learned from a previous post
about the rename command. This line however, should be the basis for many
future scripts.
Needless to say, be extremely careful, I am afraid I know the destructive
powers of this line first hand. It all happened a few years ago; I forgot to
be careful. My therapist says that I must learn to let go.
Alvaro Zuniga
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 08:58:08 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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