[plug] multi-file find & replace

[Bevan Broun]

on Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 04:00:12PM +0800, Matt Kemner <zombie at networx.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Bevan Broun wrote:
> 
> > for f in `find . -name '*.htm' -print`;do
> > >g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/$/l/'`
> > >cp $f $g
> > >done
> 
> You'd probably want to use "mv" not "cp" there if you're just renaming
> files. :)

Yes - but if you make a mistake the files can all be moved to the same
thing and then it's out with the tapes. So I should have added:
 
after check all is as you want do:
find . -name '*.htm' -exec rm {} \;

> See the list archives for doing similar things using the tcsh and zsh
> shells. :)

I was going to say that but ..

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