Shell Script Error- can't execute the command

Question

I wrote a bash shell script to rename the file,

#!/bin/bash

#renaming the files

for filename in 'find . -name "PostStackTemplate*"' 
do
   echo $filename 
   newName='echo $filename | sed -e "s/TestVersion/Version2/g" $filename'
   mv $filename  $newName 
done

When I execute this script, I am getting the output as

find . -name "PostStackTemplate*" 
mv: invalid option -- n 
Try `mv --help' for more information.

Am I doing something wrong.

If you actually used single quotes instead of backquotes, that's your problem. You want: for filename in $( find .... ) and newName=$( echo ... ) — William Pursell
– William Pursell, Commented Feb 8, 2012 at 0:03

jcollado · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-07 23:07:05Z

2

I think you to use command substitution to assign the output of the sed command to the newName variable:

newName=$(echo $filename | sed -e "s/TestVersion/Version2/g" $filename)

Otherwise, newName would contain just the string being assigned.

answered Feb 7, 2012 at 23:07

jcollado

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