Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:43:44 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh script to walk through a filetree? [shell, example, file, directory, tree] Message-ID: <20011217224344.M724@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20011217122028.K21241@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:20:28PM %2B0100 References: <20011217122028.K21241@xs4all.nl>
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:20:28PM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 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?
The easiest way is: "find .".
To distinguish between files and directories: "find . -type f" and
"find . -type d".
To do something with it, if the argument list isn't becoming too
big, is to pipe it through xargs:
"find . -type f | xargs rm" to remove all the files.
Now a little bit more difficult with recursion:
#!/bin/sh
=============================
go ( ) {
local DIR
local entry
DIR=$1
echo "now in $DIR"
cd "$DIR"
for entry in *; do
if [ -d "$entry" ]; then
go "$DIR/$entry"
fi
if [ -f "$entry" ]; then
echo "File $entry"
fi
done
cd ..
echo "back to .."
}
go .
=============================
good luck
Edwin
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