Replace Filename and text inside of directory

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a directory that has directories that contain Dir-20111114-xyz and I want to change them to Dir-20111121-xyz.

Inside of Dir-20111114-xyz, I have a config.xml file that also contains the date that I need changed from 20111114 to 20111121

I have used sed to replace inside of file not sure how to handle renaming the directories.

Thank you.

2

You could use the mv command to rename files.

Please be more specific about you file names, what you wrote is confusing. Is the name of files actually "Dir-20111114-xyz"? Or, is part of that trying to show path and name, as in "\dir\2011114\xyz"?

3

the Directory name is actually "DIR-20111114-xyz" and there is 50 or so with "DIR-20111114-abc" "DIR-20111114-efg"
I want to keep the name intact except for the changing of the date.

4 
OLDDATE=20111114
NEWDATE=yyyymmdd

for DIR in DIR-"${OLDDATE}"-*
do
        sed "s/${OLDDATE}/${NEWDATE}/g" < "${DIR}/config.xml" > "${DIR}/config.xml.new"
        #cat "${DIR}/config.xml.new" > "${DIR}/config.xml"
        # rm "${DIR}/config.xml.new"
        echo mv "${DIR}" "${DIR/${OLDDATE}/${NEWDATE}}"    
done

Remove the #'s and echoes once you've checked the output and the content of the config.xml.new files to make sure it's really done what you want.

5

There are several examples of q&a on batch renaming files: