Try:
# find <parent dir> -type d -name dir-192.168.\* -exec mv \{\} `echo \{\} | sed 's/192\.168\./10\.0\./'` \;
That should recursively rename all directories from one naming scheme to another.
-Ross
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri Nov 02 09:28:45 2007
Subject: Re: script help
I run it but it has error.
sed 's/^dir-192\.168/dir-10\.0/'`
sed: read error on dir-192.168.0.31: Is a directory
--- Toby Bluhm <tkb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Toby Bluhm wrote:
> > adrian kok wrote:
> >> Hi Phil
> >>
> >> thank you
> >>
> >> But I have several hundred those pattern
> directories!
> >>
> >> I did think to cat those directories in a file
> >> "olddir"
> >>
> >> eg:
> >>
> >> dir-192.168.30.0 dir-192.168.30.144
> dir-192.168.30.184
> >> ........................................
> >>
> >> and sed 's/dir-192.168/dir-10.0/g' olddir >
> newdir
> >>
> >> but i don't know how to move
> >> rename the directories in olddir to newdir
> >>
> >> Thank you again
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Assuming dir-192.168* are all in one directory
> level, cd to that dir:
> >
> > for olddir in `ls -1 | grep dir-192.168`
> > do
> > newdir=`echo $olddir | sed
> 's/^dir-192.168/dir-10.0/'`
> > mv $olddir $newdir
> > done
> >
> >
>
> That sed line should be:
> 's/^dir-192\.168/dir-10\.0/'`
>
>
> --
> Toby Bluhm
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