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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find all .htaccess files and make a backup copy in respective directories Post 302525907 by boxx on Sunday 29th of May 2011 04:31:52 PM
Old 05-29-2011
Find all .htaccess files and make a backup copy in respective directories
Hey guys,

I need to know how to locate all .htaccess files on the server and make a backup of them in the folder they reside before I run a script to modify all of them.

So basically taking dir1/.htaccess and copying it as dir1/.htaccess_bk
dir2/.htaccess copying as dir2/.htaccess_bk
etc...

Code:
find / -name ".htaccess" -exec cp (NOT SURE WHAT GOES HERE) {} \;

Can someone explain the proper cp usage for this example?

Much appreciated.

---------- Post updated at 01:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:48 PM ----------

Nevermind,

I think I figured it out
Code:
find <start_directory> -iname ".htaccess" -exec cp {} {}_bak \;

---------- Post updated at 01:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:01 PM ----------

Okay so that seemed to work as intended.

Now I'm curious... I have a copy of each original .htaccess file named .htaccess_bak sitting along side each original just incase my script to update them all doesnt work as planned and I need to revert to the backups..

How can I accomplish either copying the contents from the backup file to the original file, or renaming the backup files all the .htaccess to overwrite the originals?

Something like...

Code:
find / -name ".htaccess_bak" exec rename {} ?.htaccess?  \;

Can someone explain the proper syntax to accomplish something like this?

Thanks
 

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