I am trying to traverse through the sub directories under current directory. There are certain files that i want to access and process inside each sub--directories. Can anyone help how can I access files inside sub directories?
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for dir in /home/ayushi/perfios/fraud_stmt/*;
do echo $dir;
done;
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This above script will echo all the sub directories. but instead of echoing I want to go inside the directories and access files that are present inside it.
find /home/ayushi/perfios/fraud_stmt/ -type f | while read fname; do
: do something on $fname here
done
This will search for all files (i.e. not actual directories) from the specified directory downwards. Note that you should enclose "$fname" in double quotes, in case it contains spaces or other "odd" characters.
An example using a recursive function
process_file() {
echo "$1"
}
rec_traverse() {
local file_or_dir
for file_or_dir in "$1"/*; do
[[ -d $file_or_dir ]] && rec_traverse "$file_or_dir"
[[ -f $file_or_dir ]] && process_file "$file_or_dir"
done
}
rec_traverse /home/ayushi/perfios/fraud_stmt
process_file can be changed to do something on file."$1"/* may be changed to "$1"/* "$1"/.* to match hidden directories but in this case special hard linked directories . and .. must be filtered to avoid infinite loop.
lsinstead ofecho