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Aug 17 2014 01:28pm

Im trying to come up with a command that that will remove the substring ".d" from directory names.

I figure i should start with something like:

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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*.d" -exec <substring removing command here> \;

but im not sure what to put after -exec to rename the directories

lmk!

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Aug 17 2014 02:04pm

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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*al" | awk '{print "mv "$0" "gensub(".d", "", $0)" "}'

If the output looks alright then append | sh to the end of the command:

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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*al" | awk '{print "mv "$0" "gensub(".d", "", $0)" "}' | sh

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Aug 17 2014 02:06pm

Replace -name "*al" with -name "*.d"

My bad.

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Aug 17 2014 02:53pm

I think i can get that to work so ty. However, from running the first command to check the output, it looks like gensub() is treating ".d" as a regular expression and matching any character in front of 'd'.

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Aug 17 2014 03:27pm

Quote (SelfTaught @ Aug 17 2014 04:53pm)

Try escaping the period.

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Aug 17 2014 05:34pm

Quote (AbDuCt @ Aug 17 2014 01:27pm)

Try escaping the period.

That worked. I wasn't sure it was going to at first because I was trying to escape with only one backslash and apparently it needs two. Man i suck with regular expressions xD

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Aug 20 2014 10:03am

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find . -type d -name "\.d" | sed -e "p;s#\.d##" | xargs -n2 mv

doesnt work if the path includes a ".d" though

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