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Old 03-09-2009
Shell script for a writing the directory structure to a file

Hi All,
I am new user of shell scripting has come up with a problem. that I have a directory structure like :

Home
|
|--------A
| |----trunk
| |-------A_0_1/
| |
| |-------A_0_2/
|
|--------B
| |-----trunk
| |-------B_0_1/
| |
| |-------B_0_2/
|
|--------C
| |-----trunk
| |---------C_0_1/


My problem is to write a script that will generate a file reporting this file hierarchy i.e (The script can be run be from Home)
(Directiry structure states that under Home/ there are 3 subdirectories called A, B, C . Each has another subdirectory called trunk/, all trunk contains the versions of original directory like A_0_1, A_0_2, B_0_1...so on)

$ cat file
--------------
A/trunk/A_0_1
A/trunk/A_0_2
B/trunk/B_0_1
B/trunk/B_0_2
C/trunk/C_0_1
--------------

Please help me regarding this. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by bhaskar_m; 03-09-2009 at 02:02 AM.. Reason: to make the proper understanding of directory structure
# 2  
Old 03-09-2009
If you are working on Linux, Use the following command to list out all the sub directories in a Directory
ls -R|grep :| awk -F':' '{ print $1}'
# 3  
Old 03-09-2009
Thanks for the help..but in my sub directories there are many number of other subdirectories...so the falling command lists out all the directories/subdirectories inside it...I want to restrict it in 3 levels only...i.e Ditrectory/trunk/Directory_version_subversion ....it should not go to the next depth..any specific solution for it?? thanks in advance
# 4  
Old 03-09-2009
ls -R| grep /| awk -F'/' '{ printf("%s/%s/%s\n",$2,$3,$4)}'
# 5  
Old 03-09-2009
thanks it is working now
# 6  
Old 03-09-2009
Quote:
ls -R| grep /| awk -F'/' '{ printf("%s/%s/%s\n",$2,$3,$4)}'
There is no need to use the Recursive option if you only need 3 levels.

Suppose this is the structure (which has more than 3 levels):
Code:
$ find . -print
.
./A
./A/trunk
./A/trunk/A_0_1
./A/trunk/A_0_1/tmp
./A/trunk/A_0_2
./A/trunk/A_0_2/testfile.txt
./B
./B/trunk
./B/trunk/B_0_1
./B/trunk/B_0_1/junk
./B/trunk/B_0_2
./C
./C/trunk
./C/trunk/C_0_1

Only show three levels:

Code:
$ ls -1d */*/*
A/trunk/A_0_1
A/trunk/A_0_2
B/trunk/B_0_1
B/trunk/B_0_2
C/trunk/C_0_1

# 7  
Old 03-09-2009
Excellent now the work is more easy thanks..it seems shell script is a really vast thing full of tricks and tweaks Smilie..thanks once again
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