~/Documents$ relink rewrite 's{/Reports (\w+) 2016/}{/Reports 2016/$1/}' ~/Documents$ find . ! -type d -printf '%y %p\t%l\n' f ./Reports 2016/Oct/Report Weeks 40-42.xls f ./Reports 2016/Oct/Report Weeks 43-46.xls l ./Reports 2016/Nov/Report Weeks 43-46.xls /home/foobar/Documents/Reports 2016/Oct/Report Weeks 43-46.xls f ./Reports 2016/Nov/Report Weeks 47-51.xls l ./Reports 2016/Dec/Report Weeks 47-51.xls /home/foobar/Documents/Reports 2016/Nov/Report Weeks 47-51.xls