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Old 04-08-2009
Finding all the files in a directory
I need to find all the files with a given file name present in the sub directories and execute a script on each file

For example In the directory source , I need to find all the files named test and execute the script run.sh

Can anyone please help me on this
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Old 04-08-2009
@prav076,

For example if u want to find a file name has a pattern say "sed" means.

find . -name "sed*" -print --------------case sensitive
find . -iname "sed*" -print --------------case insensitive.

o/p will be

./sed.ksh
./sed.tar
./sed_awk.sql
./sed1.ksh
......................
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Old 04-08-2009
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Last edited by clx; 04-08-2009 at 08:46 AM.. Reason: misunderstood the problem
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Old 04-08-2009
Hi,

Try the below command

find . -name "test" -exec ./run.sh '{}' \;
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Old 04-09-2009
Thank you all for your replySmilie
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