Re: [ILUG] calling a program recursively

From: Stephen Shirley (diamond at domain skynet.ie)
Date: Fri 20 Sep 2002 - 16:32:03 IST


On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:22:15PM +0100, John Allman wrote:
> Hi - i dont know if there's a program to do this all ready - i strongly
> suspect there is (if not i might just write one). I want to call a
> program recursively in each directory under a particular directory. I
> have a little script to do things to every file in a directory. I want
> to call it in every directory inside that directory, and every directory
> in that and so on, recursively.

How about:

find /path/to/base -type d -exec /path/to/script \;

(not tested)

Steve

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