Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Example: renaming files and files references within arch

[Aaron Bentley]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here's how I solved a need to rename and re-reference a bunch of files
> managed by tla. I wanted to rename all my ".tmpl" files to ".html". The 
> files needed to be moved on the file system, and all code references to
> ".tmpl" updated. Here's how I did it:
>
>  # 1. Find all files named .tmpl and rename them to .html
>  for f in `find html_root -name '*.tmpl'`; {
>    tla mv $f  `perl -e '($p) = $ARGV[0]; $p =~ 
> s/(.*)\/([\w\-]+).tmpl/$1\/$2.html/; print $p' $f` ;
>  }
>  
>  # 2. while protecting the {arch} directory, rename all references in the code from '.tmpl' to '.html'
>  chmod -R -w '{arch}'
>  grep -Rl '.tmpl' * | xargs perl -pi -e 's/\.tmpl/.html/g'
>  chmod -R +w '{arch}'
>
> #################
>
> Any suggestions for easier ways to accomplish these steps (especially the first?

It looks like you're ignoring "tla inventory --source".  If you had tmpl 
files that weren't source, 1 would not work very well.  Instead, you 
should be able to do:

for q in $(tla inventory --source|grep "\.html$"|sed s/\.tmpl$//); do
  tla mv $q.html $q.tmpl
done

And for the second, inventory excludes {arch} by default, so

grep -Rl '.tmpl' $(tla inventory --source) | xargs perl -pi -e 
's/\.tmpl/.html/g'

Unless you have non-source files that may include that text.

Oh, and I'd run tla changes --diffs afterward, and make sure that that 
no undesired changes were introduced.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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