I have a directory with many subdirectories inside, i want to execute a command on each of those subdirectories.
What i want to do is run 'svn up'
this is what i have tried so far
find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec svn "up '{}'" \;
and
for dir in * do cd $dir; svn up; cd ..;
None of them works so far (I have tried many things without luck)
You just need a trailing slash on the glob:
for d in */; do # only match directories
( cd "$d" && svn up ) # Use a subshell to avoid having to cd back to the root each time.
done
This seems to work:
find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec svn up "{}" \;
But it tried to update the current directory, which should be ommited. (althought it works for me because current dir is not a svn directory)
This works for me - the -d checks for a directory:
for f in *; do if [ -d "$f" ]; then cd "$f"; echo "$f"; cd ..; fi; done
echo "$f" can be substituted for whatever command you wish to run from inside each directory.
Note that this, and the trailing / solution, both match symbolic links, as well as files. If you want to avoid this behaviour (only enter real directories), you can do this:
for f in *; do if [ -d "$f" -a ! -L "$f" ]; then cd "$f"; echo "$f"; cd ..; fi done
