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How do I use find to copy all found files to a new name in their same directories?
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I've got a simple command that does almost what I want. The following will locate all files with a suffix of '_compressed.swf' and copy each into its same directory with a '.bak2' appended: find '../content' -name '*_compressed.swf' -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} cp {} {}.bak2 Results In: /content/somefi…
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This solution is probably the most portable: There is also the famous rename.pl script which is distributed with Perl, and the rename command which could have made this a bit easier. These aren't available on all distributions though, these commands…
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