Bash Script Help

BillHicksRIP · 24 Aug 2010 at 22:58

Can anyone help with a bash script I need to write? I've found various methods on the net but can't seem to get the two together. I need to search a directory, and for every file it finds in the root directory, do something. I can't work out how to get the script to only concentrate on files, not directories, and only in the root directory, and not worry about sub-directories beneath the root.

I've worked out each of the criteria but can't work out how to put the two together.

BillHicksRIP · 25 Aug 2010 at 01:05

Cheers for the help. The file can have any prefix or suffix but it must exist in the root folder and not any subdirs. It's this bit that's confusing me.

BillHicksRIP · 25 Aug 2010 at 10:56

The box I'm working on is Solaris and even though the script is running under bash, the maxdepth option is not being accepted.

find: bad option -maxdepth
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list

BillHicksRIP · 25 Aug 2010 at 13:12

Thanks for the help. Got it.

Code:

for files in `find * -prune -type f`; 
do echo $files ; 
done