Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:02:23 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/44246/unix-regexp-search-down-a-directory-tree <p>Searches down the current directory every file whose name matches (case insensitively) {{file_pattern}} for the regexp {{text}}.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:28:37 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/44246/unix-regexp-search-down-a-directory-tree https://snipplr.com/view/39769/batch-rename-with-wildcard-support-in-unix <p>To rename a bunch of files from "*.foo" to "*.bar" (like windows' REN *.foo *.bar) in unix. Looking at the solution, it is easy to adapt it to more powerful character substitutions on a 1 to 1 basis. If you want to test what will be executed before doing so, just drop the last pipe.</p> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:53:11 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/39769/batch-rename-with-wildcard-support-in-unix