12-24-2013
Your title is too vague to understand what you want to do. Are you just trying to list the files of type directory that appear in the file hierarchy beneath a given starting directory? Are you looking for regular files matching some pattern in a certain set of directories?
Show us an example of the files you're working with and show us the output you want!
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