On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Reid Thompson wrote: > smanna wrote: > > Hello I am trying to write a script. This is the thing, I want to loop > > through all folders in a certain folder and send all files in these > > folders to a java program. The files are somewhere in the > > neighbourhood of 170.000. the setup is: > > Home > > cygwin.sh program.java Folder > > folder > > folder ... > > folder folder ... > > folder folder ... > > files files ... > > files files ... > > > > help would be completely fantastic!! > > try something along the lines of > > for dir in `find . -type d` > do > for file in `ls $dir` > do > program.java ${dir}/$file > done > done
How about simply find . -type f | java program and have program.java read filenames from System.in? That way you're not spawning 1 JVM per file. Igor P.S. For a non-Cygwin question, this is getting an awful lot of replies. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/