Question

I want to add recursivly new file. This is folder structure “a/b/c/d/e”. When i use this

find . -exec touch file$RANDOM {} \; 

I want to get in folder a: file61 and b; in b: file79 and c; etc.
But it doesnt work and make only new file in a

Answer 1

find . -type d -exec touch {}/file$RANDOM \;

-type d matches just directories and therefore makes sure find only does the -exec command for directories.

{} (the matched filename) needs to be up front since otherwise the -exec command executes the command from the directory find was run from.