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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Loop through directory names Post 302837297 by newbie83 on Thursday 25th of July 2013 01:19:09 PM
Old 07-25-2013
Loop through directory names
Some guidance is highly appreciated.

I have 10 directories with names ending with 'xyz', each of them have about 30000 files. I want to loop through the contents of each directory and produce a single output per directory. So I want to have 10 output files named 'directory_name'_out.

With multiple files I can do

Code:
for file in  *xyz
do
some command $file > $file_out
done

How do I do the same with directories?
 

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