Shell Programming and Scripting

I think this will achieve what you have asked for. However, I'm not sure that what you asked for is what you want.


Create the script (I'm using Bourne shell because there is nothing that needs the heavy duty of bash):

Code:

        cat > 223697.sh
#! /bin/sh
#       223697.sh - compile (contents of) directories


        dirs=`find . -mount -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d`

        for dir in $dirs
        do
                cd $dir
                gcc *.c
                cd ..
        done

^D

NB the next step does NOT compile anything; it simply makes it executable.

Code:

chmod u+x 223697.sh

NB Do NOT type a dollar-sign ($) to run it. Just enter:

Code:

./223697.sh

This will compile all the C code in all the subdirectories. However,

I'm not sure if you really want 'gcc *.c', but that's what your code had.

Thanks very much for replying, that is exactly what I wanted. I managed to get the BASH one working awsell but can't post the code up just atm.

Cheers for the help guys