renaming mass file extensions (HELP), in Debian Linux Options

[Root_Werks]

Whew! Well, since everything is in a temp file, I would try something like this from the directory in which your files reside:

mv -i *.php /home/temp/new_files/*.php3

Then you can:

ls -l /home/temp/new_files/* > /home/temp/new_files/list.txt

ls -l > list1.txt

Compare the two list files to make sure nothing is missing. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

[bd1308]

okay....did apt-get install php4 to get php4....figured it didnt work with php3 so i migth as well upgrade..done
dumped entire /phpBB2 to /trash....can't figure out how to delete whole non-empty dir's tho.
next i'm going to print out my httpd.conf file and look through that to see if i left traces of php3 in there....
files are now needing to be named .php, but i was trying everything to see if any combo worked.
nothing works rigth now, seems as if .php isnt recignized as an actual executable file to apache...but i dont see a module to load in httpd.conf

[tat2dphreak]

QUOTE (Root_Werks @ Apr 7 2005, 02:33 PM)

Whew! Well, since everything is in a temp file, I would try something like this from the directory in which your files reside: mv -i *.php /home/temp/new_files/*.php3 Then you can: ls -l /home/temp/new_files/* > /home/temp/new_files/list.txt ls -l > list1.txt Compare the two list files to make sure nothing is missing. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

I don't think that mv will work the way you used it... if so, it doesn't work for me under HP UNIX.. I just set up a test to try it, using a copy of my sql directory and a temp dir under it...

razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql-> mkdir test
razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql-> mv -i *.sql ./temp/*.sq1
Usage: mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] f1 f2
mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] f1 ... fn d1
mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] d1 d2
razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql->

[tat2dphreak]

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Apr 7 2005, 02:39 PM)

okay....did apt-get install php4 to get php4....figured it didnt work with php3 so i migth as well upgrade..done dumped entire /phpBB2 to /trash....can't figure out how to delete whole non-empty dir's tho. next i'm going to print out my httpd.conf file and look through that to see if i left traces of php3 in there.... files are now needing to be named .php, but i was trying everything to see if any combo worked. nothing works rigth now, seems as if .php isnt recignized as an actual executable file to apache...but i dont see a module to load in httpd.conf

to delete whole non-empty directories... "rm -rf directory_name"

be careful though...

[Root_Werks]

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Apr 7 2005, 11:43 AM)

QUOTE (Root_Werks @ Apr 7 2005, 02:33 PM) Whew!  Well, since everything is in a temp file, I would try something like this from the directory in which your files reside: mv -i *.php /home/temp/new_files/*.php3 Then you can: ls -l /home/temp/new_files/* > /home/temp/new_files/list.txt ls -l > list1.txt Compare the two list files to make sure nothing is missing. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) I don't think that mv will work the way you used it... if so, it doesn't work for me under HP UNIX.. I just set up a test to try it, using a copy of my sql directory and a temp dir under it... razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql-> mkdir test razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql-> mv -i *.sql ./temp/*.sq1 Usage: mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] f1 f2 mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] f1 ... fn d1 mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] d1 d2 razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql->

I'm just going off of memory. I have a unix emulator on my PC here at work I use sometimes for perl stuff, but haven't done much with the ksh in a few years. Written hundreds of ksh scripts on HP-UX boxes though. Ah the memories. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

I think my emulator is running bash, that could be the difference there.

[Gint]

This looks a lot like work!

From a bash shell command line (which is probably what you're running out of the box in Linux):

ls *.php | awk -F. '{print $1}'|while read file; do mv $file.php $file.php3; done

[Gint]

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Apr 7 2005, 01:39 PM)

okay....did apt-get install php4 to get php4....figured it didnt work with php3 so i migth as well upgrade..done dumped entire /phpBB2 to /trash....can't figure out how to delete whole non-empty dir's tho. next i'm going to print out my httpd.conf file and look through that to see if i left traces of php3 in there.... files are now needing to be named .php, but i was trying everything to see if any combo worked. nothing works rigth now, seems as if .php isnt recignized as an actual executable file to apache...but i dont see a module to load in httpd.conf

rmdir

or

rm -r "directory name"

But make sure you want to delete everying!

Dude, if you're gonna keep this up, you need to invest in some books and learn to love man pages.

[bd1308]

well i might just have to do that anyway, as i still don't feel confident in my php installation abilities.

[Gint]

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Apr 7 2005, 12:36 PM)

nevermind....it worked!!!!! yea! thank you all....now you all have to tell me hwo to learn all of this stuff

Just like everything else. Learn what you can from books. Then... Do it... try it... learn from your mistakes and build on the experience.