Shell Programming and Scripting

hi:

I'm trying to write a shell script that recognizes all .txt files in all the subdirectories in my current directory.
Let's say that i have a directory called Applications which consists of many subdirectories on mnay levels.
i want the shell script to look for all .txt files that exist only in DOC / DOCS subdirectories. (the thing is I have many DOC / DOCS subdirectories on different levels, i cant specify the path to them)

this is what i have so far but it's not working:
the first loop is to look into all DOC /DOCS subdirectories
the 2nd loop is suppose to look for all .txt files
and i want to display the name of all .txt files that exist in DOC/DOCS
and that what's the echo is doing.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
 system='/path/to/the/main/directory/Applications'
for i in `find $(system) \( -name DOC\* \) ` ;  do
  for j in `find $(system) \( -name "\.txt" \) ` ; do
    echo $j
    echo $i
  done
done

Regards

Code:

cd myhome
find . -type f -name '*.txt'  -exec ls -l {} \;

thank u for ur response
am getting this error now: missing argument to `-exec'

What exactly did you type - is the trailing semicolon there, for example.
Please post what you tried.
And - what OS (flavor of UNIX) are you running on?

I am running Ubuntu 10.4

The code i executed is

Code:

find . -type f -name '*.txt' -exec ls -l {} \ ;

the code is running now but it's giving me all the .txt files in all subdirectories but i am interested in .txt file in DOC and DOCS subdirectories only

is there any why i can combine the following code to the previous one so i only get .txt files in DOC and DOCS directories:

Code:

find .  -name '*.txt' -exec ls -l {} \ ;

Regards

How about this for long file listing

Code:

find DOC DOCS -type f -name '*.txt' -ls

Or this just for the names:

Code:

find DOC DOCS -type f -name '*.txt'

Nope, that didn't work since the DOC DOCS exist on so many subdirectories.
this is what i came up with

Code:

find . -name DOC* | while read i
do
  find $i -type f -name '*.txt'
  echo $i
done

now the last step i want to rename the .txt files to .txtOld
when i added the code below the find command, i noted that the DOC/DOCS file were renamed not the .txt files so they became .DOC.txtOld and this is Not what i want.

Code:

mv $i $.txtOld

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Please use code tags

---------- Post updated 03-31-11 at 09:04 AM ---------- Previous update was 03-30-11 at 06:42 PM ----------

the $i in the code above seems to be a pointer to the DOC DOCS folders not to the .txt files inside those folders. how can i point to the .txt files instead of the directory that contains the files