Sounds like a job for 'find' !
find /home/bill -type f -name '*.doc' -exec somecommand someargs {} \;
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
where to only look name what cmd command | +-- mandatory
start at files pattern to run args |
|
will insert found name here
you can harmlessly try it:
find /home/bill -type f -name '*.doc' -exec ls -s {} \;
or
find /home/bill -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
'man find' is your friend.
HTH,
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of robin
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash
>
>
> I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a
> directory,
> find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately,
> I'm stuck on
> the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd
> thought this would work
>
> for i in *
> do
> if [-d $i]; then
> cd $i
>
> and so on, but the third line obviously has the wrong syntax,
> as I get
> "[!: command not found". Any ideas?
>
> Sir Robin
>
> --
> “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
> - Voltaire
>
> Robin Turner
> IDMYO
> Bilkent Universitesi
> Ankara 06533
> Turkey
>
> www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
>
>
>
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