[ILUG] global rename

[P at draigBrady.com]

P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> Paul Biggar wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>>
>> I have a large directory containing code, data, scripts and documents,
>> all ASCII. I want to do a global rename, that is for every instance of
>> foo, I want it replaced with bar, whether its in a file name or inside
>> a file, or anywhere, in fact.
>>
>> Does a utility to do this exist? Or should I just script it?
> 
> 
> A simple script should do. The following is untested:

Fixing some obvious mistakes:

find /large/dir |
while read name; do
     new_name=`echo $name | sed 's/foo/bar/g'`
     [ "$name" != "$new_name" ] && mv "$name" "$new_name"
     if [ -f "$new_name" ]; then
         sed 's/foo/bar/g' < "$new_name" > /tmp/rename.$$
         mv -f /tmp/rename.$$ "$new_name"
     fi
done

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