Rename files recursively Mac OSX

Question

Attempting to rename a bunch of files.

I can rename any instances of foo with bar in the current directory with:

ls . | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2' | /bin/sh 

What can I add to make it recursive?

Edit/My solution

I don't know/understand this shell type stuff so I did it with some (pretty dirty) Ruby:

5.times do   Dir["**/*"].each do |f|     file_name = File.absolute_path f     should_rename = file_name.include? "yolo"     new_file_name = file_name.gsub("yolo", "#{@project_name}")     File.rename(f, new_file_name) if (should_rename and File.exists? f)   end end 

Answer 1

This has been asked: Recursive batch rename

With your example, you could go with:

brew install rename find . -exec rename 's|foo|bar|' {} +