bruce wrote:
> i can rename a file in the current dir
>
> is there a way to be in a parent dir, and rename a file in a child
> dir?
>
> i can use the find cmd, and generate the files i want to rename.
> however, my attempts at using the find . -name "foo" | xargs
> rename... doesn't seem to work, as the rename is coming back saying
> that the file doesn't exist..
>
> it seems that the rename is operating on files in the current dir,
> as opposed to the files from the 'find'....
Can you post the command and the output?
This works here:
$ mkdir dir; touch dir/abcCat.{txt,py}
$ ls dir/
abcCat.py abcCat.txt
$ find dir/ -name 'abcCat.*' | xargs rename . _dog.
$ ls dir/
abcCat_dog.py abcCat_dog.txt
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