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Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 11

Looping through files in directory

I want to loop through all files in given path to directory and echo the type of each file.

So far I managed to do these:

for file in `ls $path`
do
    if [[ -f "$file" ]];
    then
        echo "file"
    fi

    if [[ -d "$file" ]];
    then
        echo "DIR"
    fi 
done

but I don't get anything evendough I have two directories inside a path?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (3)

Robin Hsu
Robin Hsu

Reputation: 4484

Perhaps you want this:

find  your/path  -maxdepth 1  -type f -exec file {} \;

If you need to recursively dig into sub-folders, just remove -maxdepth 1 option like this:

find  your/path  -type f -exec file {} \;

If you need to also print the folder name, and its type (type == "Directory", of course), just remove the -type f option like this:

find  your/path  -exec file {} \;

Upvotes: 0

Gilles Quénot
Gilles Quénot

Reputation: 185053

Avoid parsing ls output, a better solution is (using glob) :

path=/tmp/foobar
cd "$path"
for file in *
do

    if [[ -f "$file" ]]
    then
        echo "FILE $file"
    fi

    if [[ -d "$file" ]]
    then
        echo "DIR $file"
    fi 
done

Upvotes: 1

pts
pts

Reputation: 87251

ls doesn't display $path itself. You can add it back manually:

for file in `ls -- "$path"/`
do
    file="$path/file"  # New code line.
    if [[ -f "$file" ]]
    then
        echo "file"
    fi
    if [[ -d "$file" ]]
    then
        echo "DIR"
    fi 
done

However, please consider Etan Reisner's comment, and get rid of ls, because it's most probably unnecessary in your use case.

Upvotes: 0

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