Question

I need some assistance in creating a shell script to run a specific command (any) on each file in a folder, as well as recursively dive into sub-directories.

I’m not sure how to start.

a point in the right direction would suffice. Thank you.

Answer 1

To apply a command (say, echo) to all files below the current path, use

find . -type f -exec echo "{}" \;

for directories, use -type d