On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:01:35AM +1100, Les Kitchen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023, at 21:42, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 10:39:02PM +1100, Les Kitchen wrote:
> >> I'd do something like:
> >>
> >> find /Dir1 -type f | perl -lne '$o=$_; s/\.junk\././; print("mv -i
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023, at 21:42, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 10:39:02PM +1100, Les Kitchen wrote:
>> I'd do something like:
>>
>> find /Dir1 -type f | perl -lne '$o=$_; s/\.junk\././; print("mv -i $o $_")
>> if $_ ne $o;'
Thanks, Craig, for your followup.
> This
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 10:39:02PM +1100, Les Kitchen wrote:
> I'd do something like:
>
> find /Dir1 -type f | perl -lne '$o=$_; s/\.junk\././; print("mv -i $o $_") if
> $_ ne $o;'
This is quite dangerous, for several reasons. To start with, there's no
protection against renaming files over
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 05:49:13PM +1000, Piers Rowan wrote:
> I have a structure like:
>
> /Dir1/123.junk.doc
> /Dir1/456.junk.pdf
> /Dir1/SubDir/1123.junk.doc
> /Dir1/SubDir/1456.junk.pdf
> /Dir2/SubDir/4321.junk.doc
> /Dir2/SubDir/7676.junk.pdf
> ...etc...
>
> I want some guidance as to how to
