Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

How can I read all the files recursively from $path modifying this code?

$path="/"

for file in *.txt
do
<read_all_the_txt_files>
done

Code:

find / -type f -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} \;

1. be sure you a have a LOT of time to do this.
2. you may want to add a

Code:

find / -type f -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} \; | more

so the screen doesn't scroll by too fast

Note: the -R tells ls to work recursively

Code:

for filex in $(ls -R -l | grep .txt)
  do 
  cat $filex
done

.

Ok, but how could I use it in a for statement?

I tryed:

Code:

for file in (find /Users/mirko/Unix -type f -name '*.txt')
do
...

But it doesn't work.

Can anyone answer me, please?

Hi

for example

for file in `find /Users/mirko/Unix -type f -name '*.txt'`
do
echo ${file}
done

Now that I know how to insert that part of code in a for I understood that it doesn't work correctly.

Example:
MacBook-di-Mirko:unix mirko$ ./test.sh
/Users/mirko/Unix/file.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/Happy.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/lettera.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/motion/README.txt
Ok.

But, another example: (after I changed the files)
MacBook-di-Mirko:unix mirko$ ./test.sh
/Users/mirko/Unix/file.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/Happy.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/lettera.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/motion/README.txt
MacBook-di-Mirko:unix mirko$ ./test.sh
/Users/mirko/Unix/file.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/lettera.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/motion/README.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/Radio
Ga
Ga.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/Save
Me.txt
/Users/mirko/Unix/Seven
Seas
Of
Rhye.txt

So the files with a space " " in their name are splitted in two lines.

Any advice?