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 -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
