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# 1  
Old 10-16-2009
Add extention to files recursively.
I want to add a .txt extension to all files in a directory and it's sub directories.

So far I have managed to come up with this for the current directory but how do I do this recursively?
Code:
for e in *; do mv "$e" "`echo $e | sed -e 's/\ /_/g'`.txt"; done

Thanks
Last edited by pludi; 10-16-2009 at 03:05 AM.. Reason: code tags please...
# 2  
Old 10-16-2009
Code:
find . -type f -exec echo mv {} {}.txt \;

# 3  
Old 10-16-2009
thanks, and to think there I was breaking my head with sed hehe
# 4  
Old 10-19-2009
Code:
function fun
{
for i in $1/*;do
  if [ -d $i ];then
  fun $i
  else
    mv $i ${i}.bak
  fi
done
}
fun .

# 5  
Old 10-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by summer_cherry
Code:
function fun
{
for i in $1/*;do
  if [ -d $i ];then
  fun $i
  else
    mv $i ${i}.bak
  fi
done
}
fun .


That will fail if any names contain spaces, and that function definition syntax will only work in bash and ksh.

Code:
fun()
 for i in "$1"/*;do
    if [ -d "$i" ];then
      fun "$i"
    else
      mv "$i" "$i.bak"
    fi
 done

fun .

Last edited by cfajohnson; 10-19-2009 at 08:44 AM.. Reason: Fixed (cosmetic) indentation
# 6  
Old 10-19-2009
That's really nice, I love a drop of recursion in my code Smilie

The lack of indentation on fun "$i", is that a carry over of a typo or some convention regarding recursive calls I am unaware of?
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