That is an alternative to command 8368.
Command 8368 is EXTREMELY NOT clever.
1) Will break also for files with spaces AND new lines in them AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'
2) For making such a simple task it uses two pipes, thus forking.
3) xargs(1) is dangerous (broken) when processing filenames that are not NUL-terminated.
4) ls shows you a representation of files. They are NOT file names (for simple names, they mostly happen to be equivalent). Do NOT try to parse it.
Why? see this :http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
Recursive version:
find . -depth -name "*foo*" -exec bash -c 'for f; do base=${f##*/}; mv -- "$f" "${f%/*}/${base//foo/bar}"; done' _ {} +
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Would this command line achieve the desired function? My CLI knowledge is not great so this could certainly be wrong. It is merely a suggestion for more experienced uses to critique. Best wishes roly :-) Show Sample Output
Renames all files in a directory named foo to bar. foobar1 gets renamed to barbar1 barfoo2 gets renamed to barbar2 fooobarfoo gets renamed to barobarfoo NOTE: Will break for files with spaces AND new lines AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'
Far from my favorite, but works in sh and with an old sed that doesn't support '-E'
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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