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Old 01-04-2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hangman2 View Post
This displays any subdir if any under dir4 also.

It will display the name, but it will not descend into it.

If you only want files and not directories:


Code:
for f in /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/*
do
   [ -f "$f" ] && printf "%s\n" "$f"
done


Last edited by cfajohnson; 01-04-2009 at 01:36 AM..