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Thanks for the reply!

As you can see it took me a while to understand what this is doing...
But it is exactly what I was looking for!
Dodgy script!

Great!
Thank you very much!
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Thanks for the reply. "2001" is only a place holder.

If I only wanted to add something to the filename
find . -name *.sh -exec mv {} {}.add_something \;
would work anyway.
But I wanted to...

Thanks for your interest!
To soliloquize further I think the answer is that it can't work - according to the man pages:
-exec utility [argument ...] ;
[..] If the string ``{}''...

Hi All,

I probably miss something fundamental here.
I want to rename a bunch of files in subdirectories (that might contain white spaces) with names that are related.

I thought following could...