Very Computer

Here are some examples of callin:

makems -r
 checks names in current directory and all subdirectories

makems /home
 check names in /home directory

makems -r /home
 check names in /home and all subdirectories of /home

I would greatly appreciate any assistance in this matter.

Jason Foster

            find start_directory -exec command {} \;

Example:   find . -exec chown sid {} \;
                 find /home -exec yourshell {} \;

or for specific file names:  

                 find . -name "myfiles*" -exec chown sid {} \;

Anyway, find can be set up to work on just directories or just files, etc.

Hope this helps,

Jane

Quote:>  I am in need of a way to traverse a series of subdirectories from
>  the working directory and perform certain operations in those directories.
>  I have the script to perform the operations but I can not figure out how
>  to traverse a directory tree.

    find . -type d -exec "do your thing here" {} \;

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