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Hi,

How do I UNIX / Linux shell scripting to loop through folders in directory? I would like to go though all files in my folder in a directory and process those files one by one.

TIA

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Raj
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Hi Raj,

Did you try using something like

#ls -lR

The 'R' switch does a recursive listing
# ls --help|grep '\-R'
-R, --recursive list subdirectories recursively

You can then build a logic of your own to process the files. So for eg a command like

#ls -lR mydir

will list all the folders within mydir recursively. The folders are usually followed with the number of files and then the file listings and so on.

You can use for loop or find command for the same. See our FAQ:

• Bash Shell Loop Over Set of Files

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