How about a nice game of golf? find app/views/foo -depth -type f | while read f; do mkdir -p $(dirname ${f##foo/}); sed <"$f" >"${f##foo/}" -e s'/\([a-z]*\

How about a nice game of golf? find app/views/foo -depth -type f | while read f; do mkdir -p $(dirname ${f##foo/}); sed <"$f" >"${f##foo/}" -e s'/\([a-z]*\)foo_\([a-z]*\)path/\1\2path/g'; echo rm "$f"; done