From b7e697449749b50758bef118274eddcd2021c41e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ononiwu <jamesononiwu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 12:38:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added find bash script for file extensions

script finds and replaces file extensions and also replaces link extensions in files with a particular extension
---
 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index db3aac2..cec0028 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2148,6 +2148,18 @@ find . -depth -name '*test*' -execdir bash -c 'mv -v "$1" "${1//foo/bar}"' _ {}
 find / \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -exec ls -la {} \;
 ```
 
+###### Recursively find/replace files extension ext1 with ext2
+
+```bash
+find . -name "*.ext1" | while read i; do mv "$i" "${i%.ext1}.ext2"; done
+```
+
+###### Recursively find/replace link extension ext1 with ext2 in files of extension ext
+
+```bash
+find . -name '*.ext' -exec sed -i 's/\.ext1/\.ext2/g' "{}" \;
+```
+
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