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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Please help me on how to loop subdirectories Post 302471057 by ksgreen on Thursday 11th of November 2010 09:51:35 PM
Old 11-11-2010
Thank you very much!

Here is what I need to do. Thanks a lot!

The folder structure is

under f1 and f2,

a list of subfolders, some contain folder name containing "abcde"
if there is "abcde", then there is file in "*abcde*" named "file.txt", then I will grep "xxyyzz"
if there is no folder name containing "abcde", then I need to go back and go to another subfolders and continue

then all the patterns will be stored in a file new$f

-------------------
for f in f1 f2
do
cd $f
#then I need to loop one layers sub directories and if there is folder named "abcde", I need to grep pattern from "file.txt". If no folder "abcde", then back one layer up and repeat finding "abcde" --- how to do this? Thanks a lot!

#find the "file.txt" and grep pattern
find .-name "file.txt" -exec grep "xxyyzz" {} \; > new$f
cd ..
done
Last edited by ksgreen; 11-11-2010 at 11:42 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

new

NEW(1)								     [nmh-1.5]								    NEW(1)

NAME

       new - report on folders with new messages

       fnext - set current folder to next folder with new messages

       fprev - set current folder to previous folder with new messages

       unseen - scan new messages in all folders with new messages

SYNOPSIS

       new [sequences] [-mode mode] [-folders foldersfile] [-version] [-help]

       fnext is equivalent to new -mode fnext

       fprev is equivalent to new -mode fprev

       unseen is equivalent to new -mode unseen

DESCRIPTION

       New  in	its  default  mode  produces  a  one-line-per-folder  listing of all folders containing messages in the listed sequences or in the
       sequences listed in the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence".  Each line contains the folder, the number of messages in the  desired	sequences,
       and the message lists from the .mh_sequences file.  For example:

	    foo     11.* 40-50
	    bar    380.  760-772 824-828
	     total    391.

       The `*' on foo indicates that it is the current folder.	The last line shows the total number of messages in the desired sequences.

       New crawls the folder hierarchy recursively to find all folders, and prints them in lexicographic order.  Override this behavior by provid-
       ing foldersfile containing the pre-sorted list of folders new should check, one per line.

       In fnext and fprev modes, new instead changes to the next or previous matching folder, respectively.

       In unseen mode, new executes scan sequences for each matching folder.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile	  The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:		    To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:	    To find the default current folder
       Unseen-Sequence:     The name of the unseen message sequence

SEE ALSO

       scan(1), mh-format(5)

HISTORY

       Based on Luke Mewburn's new (http://www.mewburn.net/luke/src/new).

MH.6.8								   11 June 2012 							    NEW(1)
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