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I have a file containg folders and files . Now file and folders have different name like vishal , gaurav , abcvishalabc , xyvishalxyz1 .

I need to file all the file name containg vishal and replace vishal with mayank .

So all my file and folders will have name mayank , gaurav, abcmayankabc , xymayankxyz1.

please help me to write the script.

Help will be appreciated.

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find . -name "*vishal*" This will give all the dir and file name containg substring vishal.

but i am not able to replace all the dir/file with substring mayank.

In bash:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

for file in *
do
        [[ "$file" =~ "vishal" ]] && mv "$file" "${file/vishal/mayank}"
done

Or simply:

Code:

for file in *vishal*
do
          mv "$file" "${file/vishal/mayank}"
done