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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find directories with same name and rename them Post 302552767 by DGPickett on Monday 5th of September 2011 02:05:41 PM
Old 09-05-2011
find will find directories, see man find, and mv renames/moves, see man mv, and then I get confused what you want in the end. Try adding an example.
 

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mvdir(1)						      General Commands Manual							  mvdir(1)

NAME
mvdir - Moves (renames) a directory SYNOPSIS
mvdir directory1 directory2 DESCRIPTION
The mvdir command renames directories within a file system. To use mvdir, you must have write permission to directory1 and directory2 and to the parent directories of directory1 and directory2. The directory1 argument must name an existing directory. If directory2 does not exist, directory1 is moved to directory2. If directory2 exists, directory1 becomes a subdirectory of directory2. directory2 cannot be a subdirectory of directory1. Directories cannot be moved across file systems. You can also rename a directory with the mv command. NOTES
This command was made obsolete by the mv command. EXAMPLES
To rename or move a directory to another location, enter: mvdir appendixes manual If manual does not exist, then this renames the directory appendixes to manual. If a directory named manual already exists, this moves appendixes and its contents to manual/appendixes. In other words, appendixes becomes a subdirectory of manual. SEE ALSO
Commands: mkdir(1), mv(1) Functions: rename(2) mvdir(1)
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