No me digas!!!!

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
> >
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