[olug] Traversing directories with the file command

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Depending on your shell, but there is a great resource for bash
scripting here:
  http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#abs
-jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Bird
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:22 AM
To: Mike Hostetler; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Traversing directories with the file command

speaking of scripting, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good
resources for scripting knowledge.
   I want to be a king of script, it just has to happen, must be done.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hostetler" <hostetlerm at gmail.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] Traversing directories with the file command
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:16:33 -0500

> 
> Use "find" to list all the files first:
> 
> find |xargs file|grep perl| awk -F : '{print $1}'|xargs ls -lct
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/22/05, webtrekker at cox.net <webtrekker at cox.net> wrote:
> > HELP!!
> > I am trying to create a way to use 'file' and grep to identify 
> > perl, shell scripts, ELF apps, etc and list their last modified 
> > time.  I have been able to use the following command but it only 
> > works in the current directory.  'file' doesn't seem to be able 
> > to follow a directory tree or have a recursive flag.
> > Here is what I have so far:
> >   file * | grep perl | awk -F : '{print $1}' | xargs ls -lct
> >
> > If there was a way to embed that into a script that went through 
> > a directory structure that should work.  I am not very good at 
> > script writing though so any help would be appreciated!
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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