On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:25:11 -0700 Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:

> On 10/20/20 10:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Thanks, very much! Btw, how do I list a directory recursively with the more 
> > nested directories listed first inside a directory? I feel that I may want 
> > to do this before I use my script to convert MH to Maildir.
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > find . -type d
> >
> >
> > ./inbox
> > ./Sent
> > ./Trash
> > ./fedora
> > ./fedora/FAS
> > ./research
> > ./research/user1
> > ./research/user2
> > ./reviewer
> > ./reviewer/can1
> > ./reviewer/can2
> >
> > and this does the right thing, almost, except that it lists the 
> > directories, and then the sub-directories of each. Is it possible to 
> > reverse this listing? If that were possible, I was considering running my 
> > script in order, then removing that directory and then going on down the 
> > list.
>
> Pipe the output of that to "tac".

Wow! The reverse of cat, who would have guessed? Thanks!

Ranjan


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