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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to loop command over folders in a directory? Post 302974558 by azurite on Tuesday 31st of May 2016 04:12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bakunin

I understood that already. Now, such a task breaks down to two parts: first, write a script which takes a certain directory name and then executes the task you described below for that one directory (respectively the files in this directory). The second part is to create a list of these directories and then call the script with each of these directory names as arguments.

You probably have overseen my mentioning of the find-command. It has everything you need to do this second part (creating a list of directory names) and i suggest you follow the link i gave you and find out how it works. Once you get that covered we will find out how to write a script which does what you want for one directory supplied on the commandline.

bakunin

Perhaps there is some misunderstanding on my part. I'm including screenshots to make sure I did not describe something incorrectly. I went ahead and made a list of all the folders in the directory. Please see below if I have done it correctly.

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delete directory(1m)													      delete directory(1m)

NAME

       delete directory - Deletes a directory

SYNOPSIS

       cdscp delete directory directory-name

ARGUMENTS

       The full name of the directory.

DESCRIPTION

       The  delete  directory  command	deletes a directory.  The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers.  The
       master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell.  Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas.

   Privilege Required
       You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory.
       The  server  principal  needs  administer  permission  to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the
       directory you intend to delete.

NOTE

       This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.

EXAMPLE

       The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: create directory(1m), delete replica(1m), list directory(1m), set directory(1m), set directory to skulk(1m), show directory(1m)

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