Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find cannot find all files in a directory
Keywords: find files directory
Message-ID: <1082@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 05:53:20 GMT
References: <874@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
Lines: 13

In article <874@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
|I want find to return all the files in each directory to exec.  That is,
|I want to do something like:
|
|     find /path -type d -exec command {}/\* \; -print
|
|so that command will be run on each file, one directory at a time.

If you don't have xargs, how about:

     find /path -type d -print|while read dir; do command $dir/*; done

   Leo.