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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename files/directories based on their name Post 37646 by criglerj on Tuesday 24th of June 2003 01:20:44 PM
Old 06-24-2003
You're only renaming directories, so the -type d option for find is a boon. Also, if you really have "hundreds of directories," it's just possible that there are so many that glob to "*abc*' that the shell can't handle the command line. When this is true, I try to use something like this untested code:
Code:
find . -type d -name '*abc*' | while read pn; do
    dn=`dirname "$pn"`
    mv "$pn" "$dn/xyz"
done

(Thanks to oombera for the `dirname "$dn"` bit. Somehow I keep forgetting about that ...)

Part of your problem might be filenames that contain spaces --- common on "modern" Windows boxes and not unheard of on Unices --- so I put in an extra statement and some more quotes. If this is guaranteed not to be part of your problem, all the "double quotes" can come out.

You should also really carefully consider the other posters' cautions about duplicate file names, too.
 

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Name
       uucompact, uumkspool, uurespool, uupoll - uucp utilities

Syntax
       uucompact -ssystem
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Description
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