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Old 12-16-2014
Traverse through directories
Hi all,

Require help in completing a shell script.

i do have a total of 90 directories where in we have different sub-directories and one of the sub directory named logs

I need to go inside the logs subdirectory and check if a particular log is present or not.

for example below is the folder structure

Code:
cd
 /a/b/c/d ;
/a/b/e/f.

I need to traverse through the directories to check the log.

Thanks in advance..

/Bhaskar
Last edited by Don Cragun; 12-16-2014 at 04:17 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 12-16-2014
Did you consider the find command?
# 3  
Old 12-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by bhaskar t
Hi all,

Require help in completing a shell script.

i do have a total of 90 directories where in we have different sub-directories and one of the sub directory named logs

I need to go inside the logs subdirectory and check if a particular log is present or not.
for example below is the folder structure
cd
/a/b/c/d ;
/a/b/e/f.
I need to traverse through the directories to check the log.
Thanks in advance..
/Bhaskar
Hello bhaskar t,

Please go through from forum rules, following link may help you in same. We should use code tags for codes and commands which we are using in our posts.
Rules link is as follows.
https://www.unix.com/misc.php?do=cfrules

Let us take a example here let's say we have directory sturcture like /tmp/a/b/c/d where we have files named chuma.test and logs.test.
So to search them from /tmp directory we can use as follows.
Code:
find -maxdepth 5 -type f -name "*.test"

Output will be as follows.
Code:
./a/b/c/d/logs.test
./a/b/c/d/chuma.test

Hope this helps, also go through from man find page it will be helpful for you.

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 12-16-2014 at 09:54 AM..
# 4  
Old 12-18-2014
Code:
# going in the tmp directory
cd /tmp
# creating sample directory tree
mkdir -p bhaskar/a/b/c/d/logs \
    bhaskar/b/a/b/c \
    bhaskar/c/a/b/logs \
    bhaskar/d/a/b \
    bhaskar/e/a \
    "bhaskar/f/a b/logs"
# creating three sample log files
touch bhaskar/a/b/c/d/logs/this.log \
    bhaskar/c/a/b/logs/that.log \
    "bhaskar/f/a b/logs/thisthat.log"

With GNU find (searching for this.log file in any of the "logs" directories):
Code:
find bhaskar -type f -wholename '*/logs/this.log'

If you don't have GNU find, try this:
Code:
find bhaskar -type d -name logs |\
while read logdir; do
  find "$logdir" -type f -name 'this.log'
done

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