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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find directory and create backup Post 302320312 by in2nix4life on Wednesday 27th of May 2009 03:56:31 PM
Old 05-27-2009
You could try wrapping the find command in a for loop. Not sure which OS or shell you're using but under Bash on Linux:

Save the starting directory:
export startdir="/dir"

Then loop:
for dir in `find . -name 'config' -type d`;do cd ${dir//.\//};cd ..;do your thing;cd $startdir;done

Breakdown:
${dir//.\//} will remove the leading ./ from the find output
cd.. will back up to the parent directory
cd $startdir will return to starting directory for the next iteration through the loop

Hope this helps point you in the right direction.
 

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XCURSORGEN(1)						      General Commands Manual						     XCURSORGEN(1)

NAME
xcursorgen - create an X cursor file from a collection of PNG images SYNOPSIS
xcursorgen [ -V ] [ --version ] [ -? ] [ --help ] [ -p dir ] [ --prefix dir ] [ config-file [ output-file ] ] DESCRIPTION
Xcursorgen reads the config-file to find the list of cursor images along with their hotspot and nominal size information. Xcursorgen con- verts all of the images to Xcursor format and writes them to the output-file. Each line in the config file is of the form: <size> <xhot> <yhot> <filename> <ms-delay> Multiple images with the same <size> are used to create animated cursors, the <ms-delay> value on each line indicates how long each image should be displayed before switching to the next. <ms-delay> can be elided for static cursors. If config-file is not specified, or is specified as "-", standard input is used for the configuration file. If output-file is not speci- fied, or is specified as "-", standard output is used for the output file. OPTIONS
-V, --version Display the version number and exit. -?, --help Display the usage message and exit. -p dir, --prefix dir Find cursor images in the directory specified by dir. If not specified, the current directory is used. SEE ALSO
Xcursor(3) X Version 11 xcursorgen 1.0.5 XCURSORGEN(1)
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