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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers script for traversing directory Post 302252934 by sumirmehta on Thursday 30th of October 2008 04:13:37 PM
Old 10-30-2008
Using the find command, following script could be helpful to traverse a dir and its sub directories (and further processing the contained files) --

find . -type f | while read line
do
echo "$line"
done
 

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SOELIMINATE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					    SOELIMINATE(1)

NAME
soeliminate -- interpret .so directive in manpages SYNOPSIS
soeliminate [-Crtv] [-I dir] [files ...] DESCRIPTION
soeliminate reads files lines by lines. If a line starts by: ``.so anotherfile'' it replace the line by processing ``anotherfile''. Otherwise the line is printed to stdout. -C Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim(1) (does nothing). -r Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim(1) (does nothing). -t Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim(1) (does nothing). -v Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim(1) (does nothing). -I dir This option specify directories where soeliminate searches for files (both those on the command line and those named in ``.so'' directive.) This options may be specified multiple times. The directories will be searched in the order specified. The files are always searched first in the current directory. A file specified with an absolute path will be opened directly without performing a search. SEE ALSO
mandoc(1), soelim(1) BSD
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