On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Levi Bard wrote:
> > for i in `find "${dir}" | grep '/[^$]'`
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >What does this do?
> >
> >
> The grep statement removes any somedir/ and somedir entries, leaving
> just somedir/otherdir/filename - to preserve directory names.
YM "grep -v". But anyhow, just say `find "${dir}" -type f` .
> >While I'm at it, you can do
> >
> > for i in `ls "${dir}" | grep '/[^$]'`
> >
> >
> Not quite, because ls only gives me one depth of the directory tree,
> where find gives me the whole thing. I considered ls -R, but find can
> be adapted to more flexible purposes later.
True. I had only considered the OP's situation, while you were looking
for flexibility. Also, find doesn't descend links (which can be good or
bad), and can be configured not to cross mount points (which is good...
the configurability, that is).
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