Re: Can't figure out recursion problem in bash/freebsd - reply/solution to all helpers

2010-01-08 Thread Bernard T. Higonnet 

Hello,

There were two approaches offered to my problem

1) changing my script: it runs if the cd .. is moved from the end of 
the script into the then clause of the if statement


===
#! /bin/sh
echo Starting in `pwd`
for hoo in *; do
  echo Found item $hoo
  if [ -d $hoo ]; then
echo Pushing $hoo
cd $hoo
$0
cd ..
  else
echo Processing file $hoo
  fi
  echo Going to next item
done
echo Finishing in `pwd`
# cd ..  was here in original script
===

I shall be bold: this strikes me as a bug in bash. Am I off my nut here?



2) use find instead for the traversing of the file hierarchy

===
find $PWD -type f -execdir processingscript {} \;
===


I have tried both methods and on a small sample (10,000 files going only 
 3 deep) and there were no meaningful differences in execution time.


Thanks to all
Bernard Higonnet
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Re: Can't figure out recursion problem in bash/freebsd - reply/solution to all helpers

2010-01-08 Thread RW 
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:23:33 +0100
Bernard T. Higonnet b...@higonnet.net wrote:


 #! /bin/sh
...
 I shall be bold: this strikes me as a bug in bash. Am I off my nut
 here?

If it is a bug, it's a bug in /bin/sh, not bash.
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