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Old 11-04-2011
Replace Filename and text inside of directory
I have a directory that has directories that contain Dir-20111114-xyz and I want to change them to Dir-20111121-xyz.

Inside of Dir-20111114-xyz, I have a config.xml file that also contains the date that I need changed from 20111114 to 20111121

I have used sed to replace inside of file not sure how to handle renaming the directories.

Thank you.
# 2  
Old 11-04-2011
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You could use the mv command to rename files.

Please be more specific about you file names, what you wrote is confusing. Is the name of files actually "Dir-20111114-xyz"? Or, is part of that trying to show path and name, as in "\dir\2011114\xyz"?
# 3  
Old 11-04-2011
the Directory name is actually "DIR-20111114-xyz" and there is 50 or so with "DIR-20111114-abc" "DIR-20111114-efg"
I want to keep the name intact except for the changing of the date.
# 4  
Old 11-04-2011
Code:
OLDDATE=20111114
NEWDATE=yyyymmdd

for DIR in DIR-"${OLDDATE}"-*
do
        sed "s/${OLDDATE}/${NEWDATE}/g" < "${DIR}/config.xml" > "${DIR}/config.xml.new"
        #cat "${DIR}/config.xml.new" > "${DIR}/config.xml"
        # rm "${DIR}/config.xml.new"
        echo mv "${DIR}" "${DIR/${OLDDATE}/${NEWDATE}}"    
done

Remove the #'s and echoes once you've checked the output and the content of the config.xml.new files to make sure it's really done what you want.
# 5  
Old 11-04-2011
You probably want to search these boards
There are several examples of q&a on batch renaming files:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...names-awk.html
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...wk-needed.html
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...file-name.html
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