Commands to recursively find files or folders, and rename them.

Recursively rename files & folders.md

Commands to recursively find files or folders, and rename them.

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Find Files

$ find . -type f -name "*.md" -print > 'Some File.txt'

$ find . -depth -type f -name "*.md" -print > 'Some File.txt'

$ find . -maxdepth 10 -type f -name "*.md" -print > 'Some File.txt'

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Find empty sized files

find . -type f -empty

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Rename Files

$ find . -type f | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//Old/New}"; done

$ find . -depth -type f | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//Old/New}"; done 

$ find . -maxdepth 10 -type f | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//Old/New}"; done

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Recursively Find & rename Files by name

$ find . -name '*.md' -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "${0%.md}.txt"' {} ;

$ find . -depth -name '*.md' -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "${0%.md}.txt"' {} ;

$ find . -maxdepth 10 -name '*.md' -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "${0%.md}.txt"' {} ;

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Recursively Find & rename Files by -name & -type f

$ find . -type f | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//.git/DOTgit}"; done

$ find . -depth -type f | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//.git/DOTgit}"; done

$ find . -maxdepth 10 -type f | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//.git/DOTgit}"; done

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Find Folders(Directories)

$ find . -type d -name ".git" -print > 'Some File.txt'

$ find . -depth -type d -name ".git" -print > 'Some File.txt'

$ find . -maxdepth 10 -type d -name ".git" -print > 'Some File.txt'

add to a file by adding a >>

Find empty directories

find . -type d -empty

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Rename Folders(Directories)

$ find . -type d | while read FNAME; do echo "$FNAME" "${FNAME//Old/New}"; done

find . -depth -type d | while read FNAME; do echo "$FNAME" "${FNAME//Old/New}"; done

find . -maxdepth 10 -type d | while read FNAME; do echo "$FNAME" "${FNAME//Old/New}"; done

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Recursively Find & rename Folders(Directories) by -name & -type d

$ find . -type d | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//.git/DOTgit}"; done

$ find . -depth -type d | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//.git/DOTgit}"; done

$ find . -maxdepth 10 -type d | while read FNAME; do mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//.git/DOTgit}"; done

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