Re: [ILUG] calling a program recursively

From: John Allman (allmanj at domain houseofireland.com)
Date: Fri 20 Sep 2002 - 16:56:02 IST


Dermot Daly wrote:

>Hi John
>Have you considered using the standard find command ? E.g. to create a
>file in every directory you can use something like:
>
> find . -type d -exec touch {}/filenam \;
>
>Which means "find all directories from here" and when you do create a
>file in it
>
>Is this the type of thing you are looking for ?
>Dermot.
>
This is it exactly! :) I knew there had to be a way!

thanks Dermot!

John



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