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» Find last modified files on a filesystem
» Print until no match
» Convert permissions to octal
» Directory Tree
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Mass-renaming files using find and sed:
(this example will rename all .php3 files to .php)
find -name "*.php3" | sed 's/\(.*\).php3$/mv "&" "\1.php"/' | sh
(this example will rename all .php3 files to .php)
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jerbear#1
most systems have the "rename" command that takes regex substitutions just like this example.
Posted 2008-09-17 13:58:48