Replace characters in a directory name 1

[chinobling]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a script to find directories/subdirectories with a certain pattern in the name, then replace the pattern in the directory name.

I figured out how to find them using find $1 -type d -name "*$2*" but it's the replacing that's giving me a migraine... please help!

TIA.

 

[PHV]

You want to replace $2 with what ?

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[chinobling]

i.e.:

./aa/aabb
./aabb/bbcc
./aabbcc/ccdd
./aabbccdd/ddee

would like to replace characters bb with zz or $3

Thanks.

 

[PHV]

find $1 -type d -name "*$2*" | sed "s/$2/$3/g"

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[chinobling]

Thnx for the replies, but how would i use the output of sed to move/rename the directories to the sed result?

Thnx again.

 

[PHV]

find $1 -type d -name "*$2*" | while read d
do mv "$d" $(echo "$d" | sed "s/$2/$3/g")
done

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[chinobling]

It didn't work
I got this an output...

mv: cannot move `./aa/bb' to a subdirectory of itself, `./aa/bb/bb'
mv: cannot move `./aabb' to a subdirectory of itself, `./aabb/aabb'
mv: cannot move `./aabbcc' to a subdirectory of itself, `./aabbcc/aabbcc'
mv: cannot move `./aabbccdd' to a subdirectory of itself, `./aabbccdd/aabbccdd'

Thnx for your help.

 

[PHV]

What are REALLY $2 and $3 ?
You may get rid of the g in the sed script.

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[chinobling]

Hey, You're awesome, i was screwing up the script by passing:
"*bb*" as $2 when it was already specified in the script as "*$2*" so that's what it was!

Thanks a lot!!!

 

[SamBones]

You can't use slashes ([tt]/[/tt]) as the field separator in the [tt]sed[/tt] command because the directories have slashes too. Try it like...

find $1 -type d -name "*$2*" | while read d
do
    mv "$d" $(echo "$d" | sed "s|$2|$3|g")
done

Hope this helps.

 

[PHV]

Sam, hopefully nor $2 nor $3 contains /, so no problem.