[ale] Need a "find and rename" script

[Armsby John-G16665]

It Works!!!

Thanks,

John


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From: Wandered Inn [mailto:esoteric at denali.home.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 8:02 AM
To: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: Re: [ale] Need a "find and rename" script


Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> I have a large number of .tif files burried in a directory tree which need
> to be renamed to .g01.  I am shell script challenged.  Does anyone have a
> simple script to "find" the files which have a .tif extension and rename
> them to .g01 while leaving the other file types along?

I'm not sure about shells, this works with ksh and I think bash:

for fn in $(find . -name '*.tif' -print); do

	mv $fn ${fn%.*}.g01
done

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
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