Changing File Extensions

April 20th, 2007 by Andrew

Today at work I needed to change a whole directory (with many sub-directories and sub-sub-directories and… etc.) of .php files to the .html file extension. Since the files were on a Unix server, I wrote a quick Bash shell script to take care of this for me.

#!/bin/bash
 
function change_extension_recursive {
 
	#change all .php to .html
	for f in $1/*.php; do
		mv $f $1/`basename $f .php`.html;
		echo $f;
	done;
 
	# recurse on any directories
	for d in $1/*; do
 
		if test -d $d; then
			change_extension_recursive $d;
		fi;
 
	done;
 
}
 
dir=`pwd`;
 
change_extension_recursive $dir;
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