Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I thought I'd start a topic to consolidate the knowledge I gain on/from bash (mainly from snippets of code that aru posts): Replace text in files with bash: ~$ cat > foo some text for the text example some few more text ~$ while read lines; do echo "${lines//text/WORDS}"; done < foo some WORDS for the WORDS example some few more WORDS ~$ Renaming files with a space in the name (or "The amazing 'find' command"): find . -type f -regex ".*\ .*" -exec bash -c 'mv "$1" "${1// /_}"' '{}' '{}' \; Converting files from upper case to lower case in a *single* directory: ~$ for file in *; do mv "${file}" "$(echo $file | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')"; done Recursively: ~$ find ./ -type f -exec bash -c 'f=$(basename "$1"); d=$(dirname "$1"); mv -i "$d/$f" "$d/$(echo $f|tr "A-Z" "a-z")"' {} {} \; More to come as I find them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 A little 'sed' snippet: ~$ cat > input_file schema.current.name=it_current_username schema.current.passwd=it_current_password ~$ sed 's/\(schema.current.name\)=.*/\1=it_new_name/g; s/\(schema.current.passwd\)=.*/\1=new_passwd/g' input_file schema.current.name=it_new_name schema.current.passwd=new_passwd ~$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 :woops: With your permission I'll post some tricks here too, not today, but I will :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 (edited) Of course you have permission. DUH. Correct me if I post something wrong, too, because I like to do things 'by the book'....like always quoting variables containing filenames, etc. Edited January 11, 2005 by Steve Scrimpshire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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