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Old 03-06-2012
Specific directory parsing in a directory tree
Hi friends,

Hello again Smilie

i got stuck in problem. Is there any way to get a special directory from directory tree?
Here is my problm.." Suppose i have one fix directory structure "/abc/xyz/pqr/"(this will be fix).Under this directory structure i have some other directory and sub-directories. Now i want to search a directory (dynamically entered by user)and list out all the files under that particular directory".

I tried but i couldn't Smilie unless i manually type full directory path. Smilie ...
I hope, friends you got my question. please give me some idea....
# 2  
Old 03-06-2012
Code:
find "/abc/xyz/pqr/$INPUTDIR" -type f

# 3  
Old 03-07-2012
Thanks a lot..but after getting output of this find "/abc/xyz/pqr/$INPUTDIR" -type f ..i want to list all the files availble in that particular direcotry with time stamp.

Can you please also throw some light on that...
# 4  
Old 03-07-2012
use ls with find , something like below .

Code:
find "/abc/xyz/pqr/$INPUTDIR" -type f -ls

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# 5  
Old 03-12-2012
Thanks a lot it worked... Smilie ...but now same thing i am trying to list out all the symbolic links...but it's not working...can you please give any idea..because same command is working for actual files......
# 6  
Old 03-12-2012
for symbolic link, use

Code:
 
type -l

# 7  
Old 03-12-2012
i tried with type -l but its not working. So i tried with
find . -type l -print | xargs ls -ld its working...thnks anyway for ur time Smilie
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