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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:54:17+00:00

I am trying to traverse all directories under the current directory using a shell

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I am trying to traverse all directories under the current directory using a shell script. In each of those sub directories, there is a makefile and I want to execute it. Any idea how to do ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try with find :

    find -iname makefile -execdir make -f {} \;

    That will find every file named makefile (or Makefile, or whatever different case for word makefile, thanks to thiton) (recursively) and then launch make against it.

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