Shell Programming and Scripting

Yes, you're right, it renames the first parent directory, but not the others parents.
On the other hand, if you removes the cd.., you get errors like

Code:

ls: cannot access ./D144: No such file or directory
./sc.sh: line 34: cd: ./D144: No such file or directory

Sorry, I can't help you much :/

Did you try my script btw?

The key to this puzzle is hinted in the first post.
1) Use the "-depth" parameter to "find" such that the deepest directory is acted on first. However the moment you rename a directory your "find" results list is out of date.
2) So! I would suggest breaking out of the loop each time you rename a directory. Then repeat the full process until you get no hits.
3) It's inefficient but has a greater chance of success.

A more efficent approach is to keep the find "results" list up-to-date as you rename directories (but still working from the deepest level up). Unless there are a huge number of directories IMHO this is not really worth the effort.