Recursive call to find files and directories in Shell script from current path.

Ramit_Gupta · #1 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

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Copy this script to your path from where you want to search for all the files and directories in subdirectories recursively.
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code starts here
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#!/usr/bin/sh
recur_fun()
{
for i in `ls -ltr | grep '^d'| awk '{print $9}'`
do
echo $i;
cd $i;
ls
pwd
recur_fun
cd ..
pwd
done
}
recur_fun

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

Code:

find /path -print

does the same thing.

tomkuria64 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

Below is another variant

Code:

ls -ltR /path

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