Re: Rename all files on remote server to *.bak recursively

[kschwab]

You could leverage find and perl on the remote end.

$remotehost="somehost.tld";
$remotedir="/some/dir/";
$cmd="/usr/bin/ssh $remotehost find $remotedir -type f -print".
     '| perl -ne \'chomp;$n=$_.q^.bak^;rename($_,$n)\'';
print "cmd is [$cmd]\n";
#uncomment after testing
#system($cmd);

[nancylt723]

Thanks for the suggestion. Here is the resulting command, but it did not rename the files: cmd is perl -ne 'chomp;$n=$_.q^.bak^;rename($_,$n)'

[kschwab]

The cmd is missing the "find /whatever -type f -print|" that should be at the front. Guessing you made some modifications. The perl command is looking for a list of files to be piped to it.