recursively changing chars in filenames

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 21:03 +1200, Tim Frost wrote:

> > You could stick it in "find" and have find do the recursion.
> > 
> > find . -type d -exec your_script {} \;
> 
> This will break for directories that are renamed, because the script
> will rename directories before they have been examined.  By adding the
> '-depth' option, you tell the find command to use 'depth-first' - i.e.
> to process the contents of a directory before it processes the
> directory.

Good point.  I missed the fact he is also renaming directories.

> So Soren can run
>   find . -depth -type d -exec your_script "{}" \;
> after remembering to quote the parameter $1 in the script.

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