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I am trying to use the find command to edit files named "msf.txt" in many different sub-directories and I want it to take the same filename and extension as whatever file shares the same extension in it's directory. So as an example, let's pretend I'm inside one of the sub directories which has an msf.txt file and an msf-01.txt file. I want to rename msf.txt to msf-01.txt. I want to automate this across many sub-directories, but only do it in sub-directories that have the phrase "data" in the directory name. Can anyone provide some suggestions? I'd prefer to use something like find for this.

This is what the current directory looks like

main/

|--sub01    

    ├── data/

    │   ├── mgw.txt

    │   ├── mgw-01.txt

    ├── pictures/

    │   ├── bootstrap1.png

    │   └── bootstrap2.png

    └── extra/

        ├── stuff.txt



 |--sub02   

    ├── data/

    │   ├── mgw.txt

    │   ├── mgw-02.txt

    ├── pictures/

    │   ├── bootstrap1.png

    │   └── bootstrap2.png

    └── extra/

        ├── stuff.txt

This is what I want it to look like and the .txt files inside the data directories are meant to contain what was inside the mgw.txt files

main/

|--sub01    

    ├── data/

    │   ├── mgw-01.txt

    ├── pictures/

    │   ├── bootstrap.png

    │   └── bootstrap.png

    └── extra/

        ├── stuff.txt



 |--sub02   

    ├── data/

    │   ├── mgw-02.txt

    ├── pictures/

    │   ├── bootstrap1.png

    │   └── bootstrap2.png

    └── extra/

        ├── stuff.txt

Maybe something like:

#! /bin/zsh -

would-do() print -r -- "$@"



for f (**/data/mgw.txt(N)) {

   others=($f:r-*.txt(N))

   if (($#others)); then

     would-do mkdir -p $f:h:h/backup &&

       would-do mv $others $f:h:h/backup/ &&

       would-do mv $f $others[1]

   fi

}

Change the would-do definition to would-do() "$@" to actually do it.