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Find file & execute command
Name: hamim Date: December 13, 2004 at 01:51:45 Pacific OS: Sco Openserver CPU/Ram: 2 gig/2
Comment:
Hi I would like to run a command that goes to each sub directory on a file system.It 1st has to search through each directory & execute the command. I tried this but no luck: find . -type f filename -print |while read eg do prostrct list automate $eg done
PS: "prostrct list automate" is an external programme run by progress application
Name: Dlonra Date: December 14, 2004 at 13:50:35 Pacific
Reply:
Your original "find . -type f filename -print " is an erroneous find command.
If you want to: find all files named "automate.st" (assume 1 per directory) cd to the directory containing the file execute command "do.this" on the file then for f in $(find . -type f -name automate.st);do cd $(dirname $f);do.this automate.st;cd -;done
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Response Number 5
Name: hamim Date: December 15, 2004 at 01:19:35 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
Thanks alot for your help -it works great Cheers!!!!
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