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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to find files and replace them in a directory in Shell scripting Post 302577603 by Corona688 on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 12:09:58 PM
Old 11-29-2011
"*.*" is a DOS thing. Why not search for the files you want anyway instead of "all files". "-*#*" would be any name starting with - and including # in it.

Cramming everything into backticks won't do what you want. It'll just give you a big list but not do anything to the files. It'll also include directories, not just files. I don't know why you used xargs to grep.

It'd be nice to know what your shell is. Assuming you have bash or ksh.

Code:
find /path/to/dir -type f -name '-*#*' | while read LINE
do
        # Everything after last /
        FILE=${LINE##*/}
        # Everything before last /
        DIR="${LINE%/*}
        echo mv "$LINE" "${DIR}/${FILE##*#}"
done

 

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