Traversing directories using shell script

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I am trying to traverse all directories under the current directory using a shell script. In each of those sub directories, there is a makefile and I want to execute it. Any idea how to do ?

Cédric Julien · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-14 16:44:58Z

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Try with find :

find -iname makefile -execdir make -f {} \;

That will find every file named makefile (or Makefile, or whatever different case for word makefile, thanks to thiton) (recursively) and then launch make against it.

edited Nov 14, 2011 at 16:44

answered Nov 14, 2011 at 12:53

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thiton Over a year ago

Slight improvement: "Makefile" is often used as well, so -iname might be more appropriate.

uyetch Over a year ago

Well I tried the above method and it didn't work. Perhaps I should have mentioned that the targets of the makefiles are in the subdirectories themselves. Hence I guess we need to manually traverse the subdirectories one by one to get it write (?) .

Cédric Julien Over a year ago

@Warangalite : try with -execdir instead of -exec, it will change directory before executing the command.

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