http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/file_management Questions tagged with 'file_management' at Ask MetaFilter. Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:34:54 -0800 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:34:54 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/16433/UNIX%2DRecursive%2Dfile%2Drenaming%2Dbased%2Don%2Dpatterns Unix folks: How can I recursively find all files with a certain string in their filename, replace that string with another string, and rename them with the new filename? For example, I'd like to find all the files in all subfolders that contain "category040" and change them to "category080". So category04021.gif gets renamed to category08021.gif.<br> <br> I'm relatively ignorant about UNIX, so forgive me if this is a no-brainer... tag:ask.metafilter.com,2005:site.16433 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:34:54 -0800 file_management UNIX turaho