Question

When we develop locally, we append “.dev” or “.prod” to files that should be made available only to the development/production server respectively.

What I would like to do is; after deploying the site to the server, recursively find all files with the “.dev” suffix (for example) and remove it (renaming the file). How would I go about doing this, preferably entirely in the shell (without scripts) so I can add it to our deployment script?

Our servers run Ubuntu 10.04.

Answer 1

Try this (not entirely shell-only, requires the find and mv utilities):

find . '(' -name '*.dev' -o -name '*.prod' ')' -type f -execdir sh -c 'mv -- "$0" "${0%.*}"' '{}' ';'

If you have the rename and xargs utilities, you can speed this up a lot:

find . '(' -name '*.dev' -o -name '*.prod' ')' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/\.(dev|prod)$//'

Both versions should work with any file name, including file names containing newlines.