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I have the following directory structure:

/maindir
/maindir/product1/
/maindir/product1/type1
/maindir/product1/type2
/maindir/product1/type3
/maindir/product2/
/maindir/product2/type1
/maindir/product2/type2
/maindir/product2/type3
/maindir/product2/type4
...

I'm able to traverse through my directory structure and print each folder name using the following code:

Code:

#! /bin/sh
find ../maindir/subdir -type d | while read dirname # process all directories
do
  dir=`basename $dirname` 
  echo $dir
done

However, I need to interrupt the looping at each product# change so I can start a new file that lists all the product types.

Can I get some assistance with this? I'll admit I'm new to shell scripting and I've searched the other posts for similar solutions with no avail.

Code:

find ../maindir/ -prune -type d -print | while read products
do
    product=`basename $products`
    find ../maindir/$product -prune -type d -print | while read types
    do
        type=`basename $type`
        echo $type >> ${product}.txt
    done
done

HTH

There is similar thread. Hope it helps you

https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...b-folders.html

thanks pludi for the input.

How would I exclude 'html' folder names in the find statement? Or would I have to do a test for a substring instead?

Pludi - the find code you provided works great, but now I've got another problem. I've added some new files and folders, and now the script doensn't process everything in alphabetical order.

I've tried using the -name "*" option to find, but this resuts in a "bad option *" error. Any suggestions?

That's because find doesn't report entries in any order but that in which it reads them from the file system. Try changing the "-print | while" part to "-print | sort | while"

Thank you, thank you. That worked!