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I want to find all of the files of type .vtk in a directory and its subdirectories and then do some operation on them. I don't want to list the files only.
Here's what I have now:
The above works on the files in the directory only.
I've tried:
but this doesn't work to get the files from the subdirectories.
Should I use some variant of:
to operate on the files in both the directory and its subdirectories?
Thanks,
Yes, you're close. To work on files with names ending in .vtk in the current directory and its subdirectories, try:
If you want to use your home directory as the base of the search instead of the current directory use:
as a replacement first line for the above script. If you want to search several file hierarchies, you can name more than one directory before the -name primary, as in:
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