[Gllug] Poor scripting?!

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:41:16PM +0000, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> Hi, I've had a look and help from the #gllug folks (thanks!), does
> this look like it would do the same job, called as 'rename
> s/cerprod/$CRMDB/ s/medprod/$CRMDB /cerillion'?
<snip> 

Is there any reason you aren't using Perl's own rename program?

find . -iname "*pattern*" -print0 | xargs -r0 rename 's/pattern/replacement/g'

Of course you may have too many directories for rename to process as
arguments. It certain works with several thousand.


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