Darragh ORiordan

Recursively rename or change the suffix on MacOS

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Here is how to recursively rename a bunch of files on mac

First it finds all the files with the .md extension and then renames them to .mdx while substituting the filename found in the glob.

find ./ -type f -name "*.md" -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "${0%.md}.mdx"' {} \;

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