All,

I have a sol 10 server running samba and I have a varied directory structure
under /data that has loads of sub dir's with loads of *.gho files scattered
in this structure.

I need a script to find any  "*.gho" files and change them to "*.aaa.gho"
files, I have managed to find/try the following with limited success

for f in *.gho ; do mv $f `basename $f gho`v0.1.gho; done
This does rename and gho files, but only does it for the PWD, while (how can
I repeat this for every sub dir ?)

find * - type f -print | grep gho
finds all gho files in all sub dirs ( how can I then rename every gho file
it finds ?).

Somehow I need to stitch the two together, your help is appreciated.....

(I do not want to use perl, I'm after as simple(for me to understand) as
possible script)


Thanks

again

Paul

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On Jan 29, 4:09 pm, "p...@p.com" <P...@p.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a sol 10 server running samba and I have a varied directory structu
re
> under /data that has loads of sub dir's with loads of *.gho files scattere
d
> in this structure.
>
> I need a script to find any  "*.gho" files and change them to "*.aaa.gho"
> files, I have managed to find/try the following with limited success
>
> for f in *.gho ; do mv $f `basename $f gho`v0.1.gho; done
> This does rename and gho files, but only does it for the PWD, while (how c
an
> I repeat this for every sub dir ?)
>
> find * - type f -print | grep gho
> finds all gho files in all sub dirs ( how can I then rename every gho file
> it finds ?).
>
> Somehow I need to stitch the two together, your help is appreciated.....
>

Under bash (dont know if it works under sol 10 though):

find * -type f -name "*.gho" -print | while IFS=; read -r f; do mv
"$f" "${f%.gho}.aaa.gho"; done

(assumed no newline in filenames)

Regards,
Xicheng

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Xicheng Thanks,

Just tested it and thats perfect, thank you, I would like to understand it a
bit more though...

Regards
Paul

"Xicheng Jia" <xicheng@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1170109761.637408.164200@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 29, 4:09 pm, "p...@p.com" <P...@p.com> wrote: 
>
> Under bash (dont know if it works under sol 10 though):
>
>  find * -type f -name "*.gho" -print | while IFS=; read -r f; do mv
> "$f" "${f%.gho}.aaa.gho"; done
>
> (assumed no newline in filenames)
>
> Regards,
> Xicheng
>

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p@p.com wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a sol 10 server running samba and I have a varied directory structu
re
> under /data that has loads of sub dir's with loads of *.gho files scattere
d
> in this structure.
>
> I need a script to find any  "*.gho" files and change them to "*.aaa.gho"
> files, I have managed to find/try the following with limited success
>
> for f in *.gho ; do mv $f `basename $f gho`v0.1.gho; done
> This does rename and gho files, but only does it for the PWD, while (how c
an
> I repeat this for every sub dir ?)
>
> find * - type f -print | grep gho
> finds all gho files in all sub dirs ( how can I then rename every gho file
> it finds ?).
>
> Somehow I need to stitch the two together, your help is appreciated.....
>
> (I do not want to use perl, I'm after as simple(for me to understand) as
> possible script)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> again
>
> Paul
>
>
with GNU toolchain:

find * -type f -name "*.gho" -print0 |
xargs -r0 -I {} bash -c 'f="{}"; mv "$f" "${f%gho}aaa.gho"'


This works also for newlines and other whitespace in your filenames.
It's tested.

Instead of an explanation, look for:

info find
man 1 xargs
man 1 bash

Enjoy,

Steffen

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