find for renaming

From: bj (bj_at_nospam.fr)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:38:24 +0100

Hi,
I need some help with the command "find".

I want to rename several files in several directories.

for example :

./0001/123456.zip --> ./0001/myrenamedfile.zip
./0002/123456.zip --> ./0002/myrenamedfile.zip
...
./0999/123456.zip --> ./0999/myrenamedfile.zip

I try this but it doesn't work :

find . -maxdepth 3 -name "123*.zip" -exec mv {} "`dirname`
{}/myrenamedfile.zip" \;

or this :

find . -maxdepth 3 -name "123*.zip" -exec mv {} temp.zip \; -exec mv
temp.zip `dirname {}`/myrenamedfile.zip \; -print

I didn't manage to extract dirname and add it to my new name.

Any help is welcome,

Regards,

Bj

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