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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Stuck in this shell script - please help Post 302509349 by miss_dodi on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 02:55:08 PM
Old 03-30-2011
Stuck in this shell script - please help
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
Last edited by Scott; 03-30-2011 at 04:12 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

doc

DOC(4)                                                       Kernel Interfaces Manual                                                       DOC(4)

NAME

       DOC - (Pilot standard text document) file format

SYNOPSIS

       struct doc_record0 {      /* 16 bytes total */
            Word   version;      /* 1 = plain text, 2 = compressed text */
            Word   reserved1;
            DWord  doc_size;     /* uncompressed size in bytes */
            Word   num_recs;     /* not counting itself */
            Word   rec_size;     /* in bytes: usually 4096 (4K) */
            DWord  reserved2;
       };

DESCRIPTION

       The  Doc  file  format is the standard text document format used by all models of the Palm Pilot.  A Doc file is a pdb(4) file: this manual
       page describes only those aspects specific to Doc files.

       A Doc file consists of 0 to num_recs records; record 0 is the header for the document.  (This header is distinct from the  pdb(4)  header.)
       The remaining records contain text, either plain or compressed depending upon version.

   Word Sizes
       In  the  synopsis  above,  the  types ``Word'' and ``DWord'' are used just as in the Pilot headers.  The type ``Word'' is 16 bits; the type
       ``DWord'' is 32 bits.  Both are in big-endian format.

   Compression Format
       A character ``c'' in a compressed record is in one of four classes:

       01-08     Copy ``c'' bytes

       00,09-7F  Self

       80-BF     Sequence

       C0-FF     A space plus the ASCII character ``c ^ 0x80''

SEE ALSO

       txt2pdbdoc(1), html2pdbtxt(1), pdbtxt2html(1), pdb(4)

       Christopher Bey and Kathleen Dupre.  Palm File Format Specification, Document Number 3008-003, Palm, Inc., May 16, 2000.

AUTHOR

       Paul J. Lucas <pauljlucas@mac.com>

txt2pdbdoc                                                       January 21, 2005                                                           DOC(4)
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