RE: [PHP] Side Comment (was: Newbie Question: Converting PHP3 fil es to PHP4?)

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jason Murray wrote: > But then, the right tools make the job easy regardless of > platform. For sure! I don't bother with all that clicking ... now you [Unix folk] don't have to either :) #!/bin/sh for PHP3FILE in find . -type f -name "*.php3" -print do PHP4FILE=echo ${PHP3FILE} | sed 's/\.php3/\.php/g' sed 's/\.php3/\.php/g' ${PHP3FILE} > ${PHP4FILE} done #END OF SCRIPT That recursively finds all files starting in whatever directory you like, and creates the newly-named files with all the references corrected as desired (with a small addition, the old files can be archived or removed). I just had some fun with that script and a copy of an old doc root ... 17 directories, deepest directory was at 3 levels, and 216 .php3 files (from 1998 :) ... took a few seconds to make all the modifications. ~Chris /"\ \ / Pine Ribbon Campaign Microsoft Security Specialist X Against Outlook The moron in Oxymoron. / \ http://www.thebackrow.net