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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Recursion in a bash script Post 302799019 by mistsong1 on Thursday 25th of April 2013 03:59:53 PM
Old 04-25-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
You didn't explain what issue that you are facing with your code!

But I noticed that you are missing a do
Code:
for l in $list
do
 if [ -d $l ] ; then

Sorry, the issue is that the code doesn't work as I want it to work. I don't quite understand how to recurse through the directories using a bash script, what the code I posted above does is it dives into the next directory, says it's in there, jumps out, and does it again for the next directory in the list. What it DOESN'T do is, go the extra mile like it's supposed to and recurse through the entire directory tree, like say it finds dir Test/, it dives inside, gets the full path, dives out, then calls itself with Test/ as its calling directory, then it's supposed to find all the dirs in there like Test1/, and repeat the process. I have a hard time explaining things sometimes so forgive me.
 

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test::inline::content::legacy

Test::Inline::Content::Legacy(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Test::Inline::Content::Legacy(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Inline::Content::Legacy - Test::Inline 2 Content Handler for legacy functions

SYNOPSIS

       Custom script content generation using Test::Inline 2.000+ with a custom generator functions

	 my $header = "....";
	 my $function = sub {
	       my $Object = shift;
	       my $Script = shift;
	       return $header . $Script->merged_content;
	 };

	 my $Inline = Test::Inline->new(
	       ...
	       file_content => $function,
	       );

       Migrating this same code to Test::Inline 2.100+ ContentHandler objects

	 my $header = "....";
	 my $function = sub {
	       my $Object = shift;
	       my $Script = shift;
	       return $header . $Script->merged_content;
	 };

	 my $ContentHandler = Test::Inline::Content::Legacy->new( $function );

	 my $Inline = Test::Inline->new(
	       ...
	       ContentHandler => $ContentHandler,
	       );

DESCRIPTION

       This class exists to provide a migration path for anyone using the custom script generators in Test::Inline via the "file_content" param.

       The synopsis above pretty much says all you need to know.

METHODS

   new $CODE_ref
       The "new" constructor for "Test::Inline::Content::Legacy" takes a single parameter of a "CODE" reference, as you would have previously
       provided directly to "file_content".

       Returns a new "Test::Inline::Content::Legacy" object, or "undef" if not passed a "CODE" reference.

   coderef
       The "coderef" accessor returns the "CODE" reference for the object

   process $Inline $Script
       The "process" method works with the legacy function by passing the Test::Inline and Test::Inline::Script arguments straight through to the
       legacy function, and returning it's result as the return value.

SUPPORT

       See the main SUPPORT section.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>, <http://ali.as/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004 - 2010 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.12.4							    2010-11-22					Test::Inline::Content::Legacy(3pm)
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