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From: Paul <set@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Recurse directories
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 22:09:46
Message-Id: 20020506230937.V27749@squish.home.loc
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Recurse directories by "Matthew J. Turk"
1 "Matthew J. Turk" <m-turk@×××.edu>, on Mon May 06, 2002 [08:23:29 PM] said:
2 > Hi there - I was wondering if there's a portage command to recurse all
3 > the directories in a given directory. Anybody? I know I could do a ls
4 > -l |grep ^d|cut -cwhatever-1000, but I'm looking for something already
5 > *in* portage, if it's available. Ideally, it would be something that
6 > would return a list, for use in something like:
7 >
8 > for i in `COMMAND`
9 > do
10 > ...
11 > done
12 >
13 > Thanks!
14 >
15 >
16 >
17 > mjt
18
19 Hi;
20
21 I think the 'find' command will do whatever you want.
22 eg. 'find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec THING {} \;'
23
24 Paul
25 set@×××××.com