Re: loop through folders

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Reid Thompson wrote:

> smanna wrote:
> > Hello I am trying to write a script. This is the thing, I want to loop
> > through all folders in a certain folder and send all files in these
> > folders to a java program. The files are somewhere in the
> > neighbourhood of 170.000. the setup is:
> >                             Home
> > cygwin.sh         program.java                                Folder
> >                                                       folder
> > folder  ...
> >                                               folder   folder  ...
> > folder   folder  ...
> >                                               files      files    ...
> > files      files    ...
> >
> > help would be completely fantastic!!
>
> try something along the lines of
>
> for dir in `find . -type d`
> do
>   for file in `ls $dir`
>   do
>       program.java ${dir}/$file
>   done
> done

How about simply

find . -type f | java program

and have program.java read filenames from System.in?  That way you're not
spawning 1 JVM per file.
	Igor
P.S. For a non-Cygwin question, this is getting an awful lot of replies.
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