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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script to replace a character with another Post 302740483 by Nvizn on Thursday 6th of December 2012 08:37:34 AM
Old 12-06-2012
Bash script to replace a character with another

Hi. I'm a complete noob when it comes to scripting. I have approximately 2000 files scattered throughout different locations that I need to rename. The current files have a character, "." , that needs to be replaced with an underscore. I have no clue which route to go about correcting this. Ideally, I could run the script from the root directory and it search & correct the entire drive. Any assistance in the matter is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
 

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EXICYCLOG(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      EXICYCLOG(8)

NAME
exicyclog - Cycle exim's logfiles SYNOPSIS
eximcyclog DESCRIPTION
The exicyclog script can be used to cycle (rotate) mainlog and rejectlog files. This is not necessary if only syslog is being used. Some operating systems have their own standard mechanisms for log cycling, and these can be used instead of exicyclog if preferred. Each time exicyclog is run the file names get 'shuffled down' by one. If the main log file name is mainlog (the default) then when exicy- clog is run mainlog becomes mainlog.01, the previous mainlog.01 becomes mainlog.02 and so on, up to a limit which is set in the script, and which defaults to 10. Reject logs are handled similarly. If no mainlog file exists, the script does nothing. Files that 'drop off' the end are deleted. All files with numbers greater than 01 are compressed, using a compression command which is configured by the COMPRESS_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile. It is usual to run "exicy- clog" daily from a root "crontab" entry of the form 1 0 * * * su exim -c /usr/exim/bin/exicyclog assuming you have used the name 'exim' for the Exim user. You can run exicyclog as root if you wish, but there is no need. BUGS
This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated. SEE ALSO
exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/ AUTHOR
This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). March 26, 2003 EXICYCLOG(8)
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