Bash script for looping through some files with name alterations

Question

How to create a bash script to loop through some files and perform few actions that involves name alterations:

find all index.html files in all subdirectories except components/* and process each file like:

mv dir1/index.html dir1/index_dev.html
vulcanize -o dir1/index.html dir1/index_dev.html

mv dir2/index.html dir2/index_dev.html
vulcanize -o dir2/index.html dir2/index_dev.html
...

Thanks

you didn't even try to manually run your commands, if you were, you would have seen some 'file not found' error. Cause after doing mv index.html will not exist. — rakib_
– rakib_, Commented Jul 16, 2014 at 5:05

konsolebox · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-16 04:41:09Z

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You can have:

for FILE in */index.html; do
    [[ $FILE == components/index.html ]] && continue  ## Skip.
    mv "$FILE" "${FILE%.html}"_dev.html
done

answered Jul 16, 2014 at 4:41

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