hi... i have what i think is a combination find/xargs question.... i'm trying to search through a dir tree for files matching certain patterns and i want to rename the files. i'd also like to ignore certain dirs. ie... [root@lserver2 wctest]# ls -al total 24 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 . drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 class drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 faculty drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .svn ./class: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 Dec 27 21:46 childClass.py drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 27 21:46 .svn -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 Dec 27 21:46 zu_fl_2772Class.py <<<<< i'd like to find any file with "zu_fl*Class" and replace it with zu..ClassFFFF. so basically, i'm finding any given file with a pattern followed by Class, and adding FFFF to it along with the file extension. i'd also like to ignore specific dirs as well... in this case, i'd like to ignore the ".svn" folder... this should be pretty esay, but i can't seem to get the nuances down. any thoughts/preferrably pointers as to how to perform this action.. thanks -bruce
