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Old 11-05-2016
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Originally Posted by kristinu
I am specifying the directories where the extraction is to take place in the variable argv_dir. For example having argv_dir="graphics" is giving me the error

Code:
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/maverik: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/panorama: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/guile-opengl: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/3dldf: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/plotutils: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/gpaint: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/dia: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/gift: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/libxmi: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/xaos: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/gimp: No such file or directory
./untar.sh: line 62: cd: graphics/gsegrafix: No such file or directory

The code is as follows

Code:
for f in ${argv_dir} ; do

  find "${f}" -type d |
  while read dir
  do
    cd "${dir}" || continue
    for archive in *.tar.gz
    do
      if [ -r "./$archive" ]; then
        echo "$dir"
        echo -e "tar -zxf ./$archive\n"
        #tar -zxf ./$archive
      fi
    done
  done

done

However when I use find "$(pwd)/$f" -type d things work ok

I want to be able to use both a relative path or a full path in the variable f
One might note that using the command argv_dir="graphics" sets argv_dir to a relative pathname and that your script attempts to change directory into a directory based on that relative path every time it reads a directory from the find command's output. Since it never changes directory back to its starting point from the directories it descends into, the 2nd time through the loop is highly unlikely to find the directory that find found under ./graphics when it is sitting in ./graphics/first_directory where first_directory is the name of the first directory that find found in ./graphics.

You might have a better chance of getting what you want if you set argv_dir to an absolute pathname. Alternatively, you could change the loop to move you back to your original location after processing a subdirectory:
Code:
  do
    cd "${dir}" || continue
    for archive in *.tar.gz
    do
      if [ -r "./$archive" ]; then
        echo "$dir"
        echo -e "tar -zxf ./$archive\n"
        #tar -zxf ./$archive
      fi
    done
    cd -
  done
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