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Old 09-07-2011
Question Need help in listing directories inside korn shell script
Hi All,

I need to loop through each item in current path, if it is a direcotry do soemthing, if its a file jsut skip it and move to next item in loop.

Tried

Code:
 
 
if test ! -d $i
then
echo "The current item $i is not a directory"
continue
fi

This doesnt seems to be working . It goes into the if statemenet even if its a directory. Please help
# 2  
Old 09-07-2011
Are you making sure that value in $i has the complete path and not just relative path..? Please post the values of variable i from your script or post the whole loop your trying. Instead of archaic test command you could try [[ ! -d "$i" ]]
# 3  
Old 09-07-2011
Tried using

ls -d */ from within the script , got the below message

*/: No such file or directory


Is there any other workaround solution..
# 4  
Old 09-07-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by justchill
Tried using

ls -d */ from within the script , got the below message

*/: No such file or directory
The above message is correct. Looks like there is no directory where you do ls -d */. Did you try the same from command prompt rather trying from the script..? Other option would be
Code:
ls -l|sed '/^d/!d'

# 5  
Old 09-07-2011
Hi michaelrozar17,

tried
Code:
[[ ! -d "$i" ]]

but got "[[: not found" message

Below is my code
There aer more than 100 directories in the path ${dirpath}
Code:
 
for dir in ${dirpath}
    do
        LIST="`/bin/ls ${dir}`"
        for i in ${LIST}
        do
            
            if [! -d "$i" ]
            then
                echo "this is not a directory"
                                continue
            fi
----
----

# 6  
Old 09-07-2011
Code:
 
echo ${dirpath} | while read line
do
 find $line -type d # read the directory name here...
done

# 7  
Old 09-07-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by justchill
Hi michaelrozar17,

tried
Code:
[[ ! -d "$i" ]]

but got "[[: not found" message

Below is my code
There aer more than 100 directories in the path ${dirpath}
Code:
 
for dir in ${dirpath}
    do
        cd ${dirpath} # move to the respective dir and then do ls
        LIST="`/bin/ls ${dir}`"
        for i in ${LIST}
        do
            
            if [ ! -d "$i" ] # Leave space around square brackets
            then
                echo "this is not a directory"
                                continue
            fi
----
----

As you have said ${dirpath} has more than 100 directories, i assume those to be at different location and not just under the directory where the script is stored.
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