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

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($cmd);
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Re^2: Rename all files on remote server to *.bak recursively by nancylt723 (Initiate) on Jun 06, 2014 at 12:05 UTC
Thanks for the suggestion. Here is the resulting command, but it did not rename the files: cmd is perl -ne 'chomp;$n=$_.q^.bak^;rename($_,$n)'	[reply]
Re^3: Rename all files on remote server to *.bak recursively by kschwab (Vicar) on Jun 06, 2014 at 20:56 UTC
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.	[reply]