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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Foreach loop through subdirectories in csh Post 302911030 by saleheen on Tuesday 29th of July 2014 04:32:09 PM
Old 07-29-2014
Thank you so much bakunin. If I'm understanding correctly, you're telling me to use the absolute path in my script. I actually didn't get this part of your answer, I'm so sorry, I'm just a newbie.
Quote:
Having said this, you cycle through all directories and call the script for each directory once, but the directories you cycle through are nowhere mentioned in your script. You probably should do something with the directory names you cycle through, otherwise there is no sense in doing this, no?
When I say
Code:
set dirs=`find . -type d`
foreach dir ($dirs)
cd $dir

shouldn't it go to the child directories where my input files are? Normally what I do is I go to each child directory one by one and call my script like this:
Code:
/scratch/scratchdirs/saleheen/Scripts/My-scripts/GEN_POSCAR_Ru-444

The same way I wrote in the script. When I'm setting my subdirectpry tree as the variable and calling that variable through the loop one by one, why do I have to mention directory name? And this part-
Quote:
What you do is:


Code:
./dir1: script ./dir2: script ./dir2/dir1: script ./dir2/dir2: script ...
What you probably want to do is something like:


Code:
./dir1: script ./dir1 ./dir2: script ./dir2 ./dir2/dir1: script ./dir2/dir1 ./dir2/dir2: script ./dir2/dir2 ...
What does that mean? What my understanding is ./dir1 , going into directory1 and then run the script. why there's ./dir1 at the end too? I'm so sorry man, may be I should read something before just posting my problems. Since I'm stuck with csh (Trying to go to bash) would you be kind enough to provide some easier books on csh for beginners like me?

Thank you so much again!
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

guards

GUARDS(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 GUARDS(1)

NAME

       guards - select from a list of files guarded by conditions

SYNOPSIS

       guards [--prefix=dir] [--path=dir2:dir2:...] [--default=0|1]	   [-v|--invert-match] [--list|--check] [--config=file]        symbol ...

DESCRIPTION

       The script reads a configuration file that may contain so-called guards, file names, and comments, and writes those file names that satisfy
       all guards to standard output. The script takes a list of symbols as its arguments. Each line in the configuration file is processed
       separately. Lines may start with a number of guards. The following guards are defined:

	   +xxx Include the file(s) on this line if the symbol xxx is defined.

	   -xxx Exclude the file(s) on this line if the symbol xxx is defined.

	   +!xxx Include the file(s) on this line if the symbol xxx is not defined.

	   -!xxx Exclude the file(s) on this line if the symbol xxx is not defined.

	   - Exclude this file. Used to avoid spurious --check messages.

       The guards are processed left to right. The last guard that matches determines if the file is included. If no guard is specified, the
       --default setting determines if the file is included.

       If no configuration file is specified, the script reads from standard input.

       The --check option is used to compare the specification file against the file system. If files are referenced in the specification that do
       not exist, or if files are not enlisted in the specification file warnings are printed. The --path option can be used to specify which
       directory or directories to scan.  Multiple directories are eparated by a colon (":") character. The --prefix option specifies the location
       of the files.

AUTHOR

       Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> (SuSE Linux AG)

perl v5.12.1							    2010-07-05								 GUARDS(1)
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