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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Execute a command w/wildcards & recursive descent
Message-ID: <13265@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 90 21:46:59 GMT
References: <1990Sep01.154949.16559@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 33

in article <1990Sep01.154949.16559@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) says:
> Unless there is some requirement to do a single directory at a time you
> could use:
> 
> find . -type f -name 'wildcard' -print | xargs command

Yeah, I guess I was getting to hung up on the order. Thanx.

For those who are interested tho', I did play with it some more, and got
the script below to work the same way as the 'c' program, and it executes
in 1/2 to 3/4 the time (according to the ksh time command), and is 100th
the size and works on BSD - go figure!

-rwxr-xr-x  1 gt0178a       290 Sep  1 17:07 ftw*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 gt0178a     23949 Aug 27 20:16 ftw2*

startdir=$1;shift
for i in `du $startdir|awk '{print $2}'`;do
(cd $i
echo '****************************************'
echo -n "in $i do ";set -f;echo $*;set +f
echo '****************************************'
eval $*
return=$?
echo ""
echo Command return code = $return
echo "";echo "")
done
-- 
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