I started writing the code but got stuck. I thought using recursion may be a smart way, but its not working. Kindly help
A few things stand out:
I seriously doubt you want a nested call to the function to stomp on a variable that is still in use by its parent. This approach requires that each instance of the function maintain its own private version of $thisDIR; the variable needs to be local.
Shouldn't that be "$thisDIR"? Also, note that using command substitution in that manner means that it is impossible for the loop to properly handle filenames with IFS characters (by default, space, tab, and newlines).
The "ls $thisDIR" command returns basenames, not an absolute path. Your code does not cd into the directory being ls'd; the -d test will never be correct, as it will be testing for the presence of a directory whose name was taken from a location other than the current working directory (which with the cd commented out, will remain unchanged for the duration of the script's execution).
I have a directory of files, each with a variable (though small) number of lines. I would like to go through each line in each file, and print the:
-file name
-line number
-number of matches to the pattern /comp/ for each line.
Two example files:
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