How do I change the suffix of all files that contain a specific string

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I want to find all *.xml files that have a particular DOCTYPE and change the suffix from .xml to .dita.

I can list the files doing this:

find . -type f -name '*.xml' -exec grep --files-with-matches '<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA' {} +

but I'm not clear about piping this into an mv command that will do the desired rename.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10803296/modifying-replace-string-in-xargs which may be similar. — Yingyu YOU, Dec 23 '19 at 03:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 23 '19 at 03:15

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Inspired by Modifying replace string in xargs from @betabandido:

Try to add | xargs -n 1 -i sh -c 'echo mv $1 ${1%.xml}.dita' -- {}, if output looks OK, remove the echo, assuming sh is in fact bash since tagged with linux.

answered Dec 23 '19 at 03:15

Yingyu YOU

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How do I change the suffix of all files that contain a specific string

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