I accidently gave all my project files a .gz format, how to revert it?

Question

So I've accidently gave all my files, php, js, html, css files a .gz ending, so they look like:

.bowerrc.gz
index.php.gz
main.css.gz

etc...

Using Centos 6.4, how can I revert back all the files?

I tried

rename .gz '' *.gz

but it fails, nor find helped me as it doesn't do it recursively in all folders.

Thanks

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 19:03

2

Whenever I've had to do something similar, I use a for loop with a find:

for file in `find . -name \*.gz`
do
  new=`echo $file | sed 's/.gz//'`
  mv $file $new
done

There's no guarantee this will actually work, since it's from memory, but that's the type of construct I would start with.

answered Mar 25 '14 at 19:03

John

2

As long there are no files with spaces in their names, this will work fine. – Ciclamino Mar 25 '14 at 19:14
1

I'd use `basename $file .gz` instead of sed, but the same approach – mpez0 Mar 25 '14 at 19:38

Matthew Ife · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-25T19:53:32.570

1

This should do the trick.

find ./ -type f -name "*.gz" | while read file; do
  mv "${file}" "${file%%.gz}"
done

This may pick up files genuinely named ".gz" and rename them too, be careful. Only does files.

edited Mar 25 '14 at 19:53

answered Mar 25 '14 at 19:10

Matthew Ife

It says "done" is undefined token. :/ – deb0rian Mar 25 '14 at 19:41
Was missing a semi-colon. Sorry about that. Retry. – Matthew Ife Mar 25 '14 at 19:53

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