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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Traverse file structure from top and rename the immediate parent Post 302525047 by sahil_jammu on Wednesday 25th of May 2011 01:25:59 PM
Old 05-25-2011
Traverse file structure from top and rename the immediate parent
Hello All,

I am trying to write a script to:-

1. Traverse entire file system, look for directories which has .git directory in it
2. Rename the immediate parent directory to <orignal_name.git>
3. Traverse new file structure and look for all directories with <original_name>.git
4. cd to that directory and remove its contents
5. once everything inside the directory is deleted, create a file



Step 1:
Code:
- find * -type d -iname '.git'

Step 2:-
Code:
function rename_git_parent
{
for file in "$1"/*
do
cd .. | $(pwd) -exec mv '{}' '{}'.dir ';'
done
return 1
}

//i am not too sure if its the right way of doing it, or shall i use dirname..


How shall i go about step2 and ownwards...
Last edited by vbe; 05-25-2011 at 02:35 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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NAME

       git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree

SYNOPSIS

       git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...

DESCRIPTION

       Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory.

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