Question

I have a set of directories called “CODE (GRADE)” and would like to rename them all to “CODE” creating a new empty file inside each called “GRADE.grade”.

What’s the easiest way in bash to do this?

My current idea:

find -iname "*(*)" --exec touch {}/MAGIC!.grade \;
rename 's/ \(.*$//' *(*)

Answer 1

If the only space in the path is in the target directory’s name, you could get away with something like this.

find -type d -name '* (*)' -print |
while read path grade; do
    mv "$path $grade" "$path"
    grad=${grade%\)}
    touch "$path/${grad#\(}".grade
done