-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 11:54, Wayne Topa wrote: > Rodolfo Medina([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Hi. >> >> I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory >> `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search >> starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? >> >> I didn't manage with `find'. >> >> Thanks for any suggestion >> Rodolfo >> >> e.g.: suppose that in my home directory there are dir1 and dir2 and the >> following files: >> ~/file ~/dir1/file1 ~/dir/file2 >> I want the result of my search to be: >> file >> file1 >> file2 > > ls file*/*.txt |sort
But that's not generic to an arbitrary directory depth. You'll have to go to Perl or Python to do such a task. See, whereas DOS, CP/M and their progenitors the DEC minicomputer OSs have the concept of file node, device, directory, name & type, Unix only has node, directory & name. There is no "type". Thus *certain* tasks which are trivial in the PC world need work-arounds in the Unix world. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHwbPiS9HxQb37XmcRAptyAJoCdF+Xnbgs/tbfzdDCyq3TAQel5gCfU6+g CC2vueuv7OvTGPpqUUcBjgU= =BUPq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
