find and replace a word with another in all file names of a directory

Question

I\'m trying to replace the word \"owner\" with \"user\" in all file names of my directory (and in all subdirectories).

Ex.

owners_controller => users_         


        

Answer 1

If you don't have rename installed, this should be a reasonable alternative (assuming bash as your shell):

while read entry
do
  mv "${entry}" "${entry/owner/user}"
done < <(find . -depth -name '*owner*' -print)