On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:40:44PM -0800, bruce wrote:
hi...
i have what i think is a combination find/xargs question....
i'm trying to search through a dir tree for files matching certain patterns
and i want to rename the files. i'd also like to ignore certain dirs.
ie...
[root@lserver2 wctest]# ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 class
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 faculty
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .svn
./class:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 Dec 27 21:46 childClass.py
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .svn
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 Dec 27 21:46 zu_fl_2772Class.py <<<<<
i'd like to find any file with "zu_fl*Class" and replace it with
zu..ClassFFFF. so basically, i'm finding any given file with a pattern
followed by Class, and adding FFFF to it along with the file extension.
i'd also like to ignore specific dirs as well... in this case, i'd like to
ignore the ".svn" folder...
this should be pretty esay, but i can't seem to get the nuances down.
any thoughts/preferrably pointers as to how to perform this action..
Untested:
find /some/dir -name zu_fl\*Class -a ! -name \*\.svn\*
Find everything in or under /some/dir whose name matches the pattern
zu_fl*Class and whose name does not contain the pattern *.svn.
Kurt
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