Perfect. I had forgotten that find lists the full path (relative to the wd). Thanks.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Alvaro Zuniga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
