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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find and replace files in multiple folders Post 302137947 by blowtorch on Thursday 27th of September 2007 08:41:49 PM
Old 09-27-2007
It isn't an error, just a warning, but you can ignore this directory. Just shove an if in there.

Code:
cd /parent/dir/to/all/work/dirs
for dir in *; do
   if [ "$dir" = "s25e3" ]; then   #you can replace this with whatever dir you want to ignore
      continue
   fi
   cp -p $dir/${dir}.prb $dir/${dir}.prb.backup
   cp /path/to/s253e.prb $dir/${dir}.prb
done

 

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