Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:41:02 -0700 From: "James A. Taylor" <jataylor@lundahl.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recursing directories? Message-ID: <3671754E.AC4F0F65@lundahl.com> References: <36716768.BBCAEA1@lundahl.com> <19981211105813.A20974@wolf.com>
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I'm sure your all getting tired of hearing from me today.
I wrote
> > Is it possible to have a shell script recurse a directory tree?
> > Still the same situation as my last email I have a directory tree
> > with .shtml files. I want to recurse the directory tree renaming
> > each .shtml to a .html file. Paul sent me the following script that
> > allows me to mv all .shtml in a single directory:
Dan Mahoney wrote:
> How about:
>
> find . -type d -exec yourscript {}
>
> where {} gets filled in with the name of each directory that gets found.
Casper wrote:
> see man find
> u'll use something like this :
>
> find /dir_name/ -name *.shtml -e mv {} `basenahe {} .shtml`.html;
When I run find with the -exec option I get the following error
find: -exec: no terminating ";"
I have put a ; at the end put I still get the error. What am I doin wrong?
James A. Taylor
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