Question

I have made a mistake with a shell script and I have backup files that I want to restore.
The code I have to restore my files (which works perfectly) is:

for f in *.html~; do mv $f ${f%\~}; done

(The backup files end in .html~).

How do I do this recursively through folders?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

find -type f -name "*.html~" |
while read f; do
    mv "$f" "${f%\~}"
done