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Hi All,

Can some body write me a script (shell script) which can create a blank test file in all sub-directories upto 5-6 levels?

I am using RHEL.

thanks

No need to write a shell script, simply use the following:
Above will take dir level upto 5 and xarges command will process each empty directory and will create a file called empty.txt.

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Thanks for your response. First of I dont know the depth level, it can be 1 and can be 6 or 9/10.

I can get the list of the dirs with the following command

find / -type d -exec ls -d {} \;

$ find test-drs/ -type d -exec ls -d {} \;
test-drs/
test-drs/test
test-drs/test/jami
test-drs/test/vijay
test-drs/dev
test-drs/dev/ben
test-drs/dev/alex/one
test-drs/dev/simon/ian/scott
test-drs/sys
test-drs/sys/din
test-drs/sys/din/khan
test-drs/sys/anu

All i want to create the file in all these subdirectories but the depth level should be dinamic.

I run that commmand you mentioned

[admin@example test-drs]$ find . -maxdepth 5 -empty -type d | xargs -I currentDir -t touch currentDir/empty.txt
xargs: invalid option -- I
Usage: xargs [-0prtx] [-E eof-str] [-e[eof-str]] [-I replace-str]
[-i[replace-str]] [-L max-lines] [-l[max-lines]] [-n max-args]
[-s max-chars] [-P max-procs] [--null] [--eof[=eof-str]]
[--replace[=replace-str]] [--max-lines[=max-lines]] [--interactive]
[--max-chars=max-chars] [--verbose] [--exit] [--max-procs=max-procs]
[--max-args=max-args] [--no-run-if-empty] [--version] [--help]
[command [initial-arguments]]

Report bugs to <bug-findutils@gnu.org>.


[admin@example test-drs]$ find . -maxdepth 5 -empty -type d | xargs -i currentDir -t touch currentDir/empty.txt
xargs: currentDir: No such file or directory

any help?

Well, i got it

find test-dre/ -type d -exec touch {}/test-file \;