Question

I am trying to write a script that searches a directory and it’s subdirectories etc for files matching a given regular expression. So I have started by attempting to write a function to get the directories and subdirectories first. For some reason it currently only seems to get the first subdirectory in the specified directory.

Here is the function:

getDirs() {

cd "$1"
for i in *; do
    if [ -d "$i" ]; then
        echo "dir: $PWD/$i"
        getDirs "$i"
    fi
done
}

getDirs $path

Any ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

This should do it, although find is more efficient.

getDirs() {
    for i in "$1"/*; do
        if [ -d "$i" ]; then
            echo "$i"
            getDirs "$i"
        fi
    done
}