On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:06:07PM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> So now want only the *.sh (shell script) files
>
> beheerdertio@einpingme:~$ ls -R ping/*.sh
> ping/getloss-all.sh ping/getloss.sh ping/showloss-today.sh
> ping/showtime-today.sh
> But neither recurses into the directories.
> Maybe because none of the directories has a *.sh name, how illogical that
> sounds, that would make the -R option pretty useless I think.
> But if that is the case then how do I change all the *.sh files in those
> directories to an executable, other than doing it one by one.
There are a couple ways.
The first one would be to turn on the "globstar" option in bash, and
then use a recursive glob.
shopt -s globstar
chmod whatever ping/**/*.sh
The second way, which is the traditional way, would be to use find(1) to
perform the recursive search, and act on the files that it finds.
find ping -type f -name '*.sh' -exec chmod whatever {} +
