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Hi

You might find it very trivial but actually don't know how to loop through all sub-directories and their child directories into a csh. bash was easier I believe but here I am, stuck with csh. So elaborately here's my problem:
Let's say I have my parent directory named C-H/ under which I have C2H3O1/, C2H4O1/...let's say under C2H3O1/ I have several subdirectories like CH2CH2OH/, CH3CH2O/, CH3CHOH/. Inside each sub-directories I have several child directories likeVAS-S0001-001-Ru_001/,VAS-S0001-002-Ru_001/,VAS-S0001-003-Ru_001/. Inside all of them reside OPT-0/, OPT-1/ inside which my job input files and job scripts reside. I wrote a script that I'd like to run inside each child directory that modifies some input files and submits the job. I would like to run my script one time under C-H that'll go through each directory and submit my job.

Here's the silly thing that I have:

Code:

#!/bin/csh
set dir=`*/*/*/*/`
foreach $dir
 /scratch/scratchdirs/sol/Scripts/QMcalc/GEN_POSCAR
end

I know I'm doing something very very wrong, I don't have a counter for the foreach but how do I set that since the number of directories might be different for different cases? Thanks a lot!

You are *really* close:

Code:

#!/bin/csh
set dirs=`*/*/*/*/`
foreach dir ($dirs)
 cd $dir
 /scratch/scratchdirs/sol/Scripts/QMcalc/GEN_POSCAR
end

If you want the whole directory tree:

Code:

set dirs=`find . -type d`

Thanks a lot guys! Still I'm having this problem:

Code:

/scratch/scratchdirs/sol/Scripts/QMcalc/GEN_POSCAR: Command not found.
/scratch/scratchdirs/sol/Scripts/QMcalc/GEN_POSCAR: Command not found.
./abc/OPT-0: No such file or directory.

P.S. I just created some directories named abc, def and some subdirectories like OPT-0,OPT-1 to test it. If I directly go to the directory and run my script it works, so I think the script is fine.
smiling dragon, your code:
#!/bin/csh set dirs=`*/*/*/*/` foreach dir ($dirs) cd $dir /scratch/scratchdirs/sol/Scripts/QMcalc/GEN_POSCAR endShould it be

Code:

cd $dir

or

Code:

cd $dirs

? I tried both but for

Code:

cd $dirs

it says too many arguements. Can you kindly explain why it's

Code:

cd $dir

? Again thanks guys, really appreciate this.

dirs is a list of all directories.
The loop variable dir picks one directory at a time.
Test it with

Code:

echo $dirs
foreach dir ($dirs)
  echo $dir
end

We all thought that your script is /scratch/scratchdirs/sol/Scripts/QMcalc/GEN_POSCAR.
Is it different from the script that manually run?

No, that's the same script :/

Please give the shebang (1st line) of your script!