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# 8  
Old 03-31-2011
First find the directories, then look for ".txt" files in each directory. We have also avoided the "for" construct which is unsuitable for open-ended lists or where filenames might contain space characters.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
system='/path/to/the/main/directory/Applications'

find "${system}" -type d -name DOC\* -print | while read DIR
do
        find "${DIR}" -maxdepth 0 -type f -name \*\.txt -print
done

Last edited by methyl; 04-06-2011 at 07:58 PM..
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# 9  
Old 03-31-2011
It can be done just with find.

Code:
find . -type f \( -path "*/DOC/*" -o -path "*/DOCS/*" \) -name "*.txt" -exec rename .txt .txtOld {} \;

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# 10  
Old 03-31-2011
Only if find supports -path which isn't POSIX so many OS's may not have it.
# 11  
Old 04-01-2011
Try the following modification
Code:
find . -name DOC* | while read i
do
  find $i -type f -name '*.txt' -exec mv {} {}old \
  echo $i
done

Last edited by Franklin52; 04-07-2011 at 03:41 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 12  
Old 04-06-2011
This is the only script that worked for me, in fact i want to do a further refinment to this code if it's possible, i would like to leave any *en*.txt files inside the DOC DOCS directories, i dont want to rename them. is this possible?

Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
First find the directories, then look for ".txt" files in each directory. We have also avoided the "for" construct which is unsuitable for open-ended lists or where filenames might contain space characters.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
system='/path/to/the/main/directory/Applications'
 
find "${system}" - type d -name DOC\* -print | while read DIR
do
        find "${DIR}" -maxdepth 0 -type f -name \*\.txt -print
done

# 13  
Old 04-06-2011
Wrench
Just corrected my typo in the "-type" line.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
system='/path/to/the/main/directory/Applications'
 
find "${system}" -type d -name DOC\* -print | while read DIR
do
        find "${DIR}" -maxdepth 0 -type f -name \*\.txt -print
done

I don't have the Linux "find" command handy to test. The general answer is to build a condition into the command line using "find" syntax. There is an example earlier in this thread.
Totally untested, for illustration of the idea: "-a !" means boolean AND NOT .
Code:
find "${DIR}" -maxdepth 0 -type f \( -name '*.txt' -a ! -name '*en*.txt' \) -print

# 14  
Old 04-07-2011
I was mistaken, the cose below was the only thing that worked for me, but when i added

Code:
 \( -name "*.txt" -a ! -name "*/en/*" \)

it didnt work
and i got this error

find: paths must precede expression: (-name
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]


Quote:
Originally Posted by rmtzcx
It can be done just with find.

Code:
find . -type f \( -path "*/DOC/*" -o -path "*/DOCS/*" \) -name "*.txt" -exec rename .txt .txtOld {} \;
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