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Re: OT: Bash Scripting Question



Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Sunday 10 April 2005 11:29 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:

>>Hal Vaughan wrote:

>>>But if you do a ls -R, it won't give you the pathnames for the files in
>>>subdirectories.

>>    Wrong.  I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out what
>>ls -R does and how it does it.  Consider it a good hint to always run the
>>command(s) in question before stating what they don't do.  ;)

> I did run it.  It didn't give the output I've been talking about since the
> start of the thread.

    But it does give you the pathname for the files in subdirectories.
./Desktop:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 grey grey 384 2005-01-03 12:57 Trash
-rw-r--r--  1 grey grey 184 2005-02-02 18:28 Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates.desktop

> I think we've got a misunderstanding because I didn't
> specify, in that post, that by full pathname, I meant with the filename.

    No, no misunderstanding.  You didn't state with the filename so your
complete statement was that it didn't do it at all.  I was clarifying to point
out that it does, just not in the format desired.  Those are two different
conditions and certainly one worth mentioning in case someone else comes in
mid-thread on your message and thinks ls doesn't give it at all.  ;)

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