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Anthony Miller
Anthony Miller

Reputation: 15930

For files in directory, ignoring folders

Iterating a for loop, how do I make sure it ignores outputting directories?

for filename in /home/user/*
do
  echo $filename
done;

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5589

Answers (6)

SiegeX
SiegeX

Reputation: 140477

As in my previous answer you really want to use find. What you're trying to do on 7-10 of lines scripting can just be done with this:

find /home/user -type f -printf "%f\n"

Upvotes: 4

Adam Zalcman
Adam Zalcman

Reputation: 27233

You can use -d operator to check whether $filename refers to a directory:

for filename in /home/user/*
do
  if [ ! -d "${filename}" ]
  then
    echo $filename
  fi
done;

See test manpage for details and other available operators.

You can also use the find command:

find /home/user -not -type d -maxdepth 1

Upvotes: 2

shadyabhi
shadyabhi

Reputation: 17234

find command is more suitable for what you want.

find /home/user -type f

Upvotes: 1

Dan Fego
Dan Fego

Reputation: 14034

You can use a conditional statement inside the loop. Something like this (untested):

if [ ! -d "$filename" ]
then
// do stuff
fi

-d is true if it's a directory, and that's inverted with !. So it will succeed if it does exist and isn't a directory.

Upvotes: 0

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 56129

for filename in /home/user/*
do
    if [ ! -d "$filename" ]; then
        echo $filename
    fi
done

Or, use the find command:

find /home/user ! -type d -maxdepth 1

Upvotes: 7

jaypal singh
jaypal singh

Reputation: 77175

while IFS='$\n' read -r filename
   do echo "$filename"
done < <(find /home/user/ -type f -maxdepth 1)

Upvotes: 0

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