recursive read directory- help pls

alexanderl · #1 (**permalink**) 09-18-03, 21:59

hi,

I would like to do the following recursively in shell script:

user key in a directory name
recursive traverse through every directories and subdirectories
read files in each directories
if a text file is found then rename the .txt to .dat
if a temp file is found then delete the .tmp file

any idea please?

thanks

alexanderl

LKBrwn_DBA · #2 (**permalink**) 09-19-03, 19:01

Try this:

Code:


#!/bin/ksh
# Replace all xxx.txt with xxx.dat
find $MyDir -name '*.txt'|\
while read f
do
  mv $f  ${f%.*}.dat
done
# Remove all .tmp files:
find $MyDir -name '*.tmp' -exec rm {} \;

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