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StompinRound
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject: Renaming files - large batch

is there a way to search an entire had drive and replace all items containing one name with another such as gnetoo to gentoo?

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

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Assuming you know the name:

Code:

mv *$OLD* *$NEW*

should do just fine.

For more complex situations try:

Code:

man find
man xargs

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