On Maw, 2005-07-19 at 18:16 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > I wanted to test this out but out application is big and there are > lots of subdirectories and many php files (500 files).So it is > difficult to change the extension of every php file manually. Its actually one of the harder problems in shell script to do this The tools you need are "basename" "find" and "mv" Basename will trim the ending off a name eg %basename fred.php .php fred mv you hopefully know and find generates a list of files matching some rules and optionally applies an action to them. So we can do find . -name "*.php" -print and get a list of the PHP files So for i in $(find . -name "*.php" -print) do echo $i done will also print all the names using shell script Next we can do for i in $(find . -name "*.php" -print) do echo $(basename $i .php) done and we should see all the names without php and finally (after making a backup!) for i in $(find . -name "*.php" -print) do mv $i $(basename $i .php)".dhtml" done You might need more quotes if you use filenames containing spaces or * but I've left that out to avoid confusion in the explanation
