recursive directory svn move shell script

Question

I want to rename all nested directories named "foo" to "bar" - I've tried the following with no joy:

find */ -name 'foo' | xargs svn move {} 'bar' \;

Thanks

Answer 1

That will attempt to move each foo to pwd/bar and passes svn move too many arguments. Here's what I would do:

find . -depth -type d -name 'foo' -print | while read ; do echo svn mv $REPLY `dirname $REPLY`/bar ; done 

You can remove the echo to have it actually perform the operation. The above works under the assumption that you don't have spaces in your filenames.

Answer 2

You could use bash to visit manually the directory tree using a post-order walk:

#!/bin/bash

visit() {
local file
for file in $1/*; do 
    if [ -d "$file" ]; then
        visit "$file";
        if [[ $file =~ /foo$ ]]; then
            svn move $file ${file%foo}bar;
        fi                  
    fi
done
}

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
exit
fi

visit $1

This code doesn't have any infinite loops detection, but should work in simple cases.