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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script that displays contents of a directory Post 302593862 by subway69 on Sunday 29th of January 2012 03:19:19 PM
Old 01-29-2012
Script that displays contents of a directory
Hello all! I am writing a script that takes in a directory name as input and if the directory exists, it shows the files inside the directory

here is what I have so far (incomplete) (mostly like pseudocode)
Code:
#/bin/sh
echo Please enter the name of a directory
read dir
grep $dir /home/other/xxxxx
if test $? -eq 0
then
cd $dir ls (this is where I get confused, this is basically pseudo code to show what I am trying to do(
else
echo $dir is not a directory
fi

disregard the xxxxx, that is personal information I have erased. What I want it to do is use grep to search the current directory for any "sub directories" and see if they exist. If they do exist then run the cd command to jump to that directory and ls to show the contents. I am having trouble incorporating it into the script. Any help is appreciated. . thank you
 

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dir

dir(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    dir(4)

NAME

       dir - format of directories on short-name HFS file systems

SYNOPSIS

   Remarks
       This  entry describes the System V-compatible directory format for the HFS file system.	It is provided strictly for backward compatibility
       and compatibility with applications expecting a System V file system environment.  It is not compatible with the similar but  more  general
       HFS directory format in which describes a format identical to that used in an HFS file system supporting long file names up to 255 bytes in
       length.

       The structure defined in should be used in conjunction with the directory(3C) routines for portability to other industry  UNIX  implementa-
       tions.

DESCRIPTION

       A  directory  behaves exactly like an ordinary file, except that no user can write into a directory.  The structure of a directory entry as
       given in the header file is:

       By convention, the first two entries in each directory are for and (``dot'' and ``dot dot'').  The first is  an	entry  for  the  directory
       itself.	 The second is for the parent directory.  The meaning of is modified for the root directory of the master file system; there is no
       parent, so and have the same meaning.

AUTHOR

       was developed by AT&T and HP.

SEE ALSO

       directory(3C).

																	    dir(4)
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