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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To: <rene@xs4all.nl>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: /bin/sh script to walk through a filetree? [shell, example, file, directory, tree]
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:30:25 -0000
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Hi:

The find command should do what you want. There are many ways to use it (man
find) but you might want to start with something like:

	find /path/to/search -exec mycommand {} \;

This will run 'mycommand' with an argument of each file that is found.

Cheers,

Barry

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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of rene@xs4all.nl
> Sent: 17 December 2001 11:20
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> Subject: /bin/sh script to walk through a filetree? [shell, example,
> file, directory, tree]
>
>
> Hi. I need to do 'something' with all or some files in a
> directory tree. Can
> someone perhaps point me to a skeleton example that shows me how to walk
> recursively through a filetree, listing all files/directories in it?
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