How to find directories

[Bern]

A newbie question:

I need to find all the subdirectories in a directory. I know how to
get the content of the directory but I don't know how I can identify
directories and for that matter any other kind of files under the same
directory.

I can I do that?

Thanks
Bern

 

[Paul Lalli]

A newbie question:

I need to find all the subdirectories in a directory. I know how to
get the content of the directory but I don't know how I can identify
directories and for that matter any other kind of files under the same
directory.

I can I do that?

To just determine whether a given directory entry is a file, directory,
link, etc, lookup:
perldoc -f -x

To recursively search directories, lookup:
perldoc File::Find

You'll want to use both of those to carry out your goal. Once you've read
them, if you have questions, let us know. Then make an attempt, and if it
doesn't work right, feel free to ask for help.

Paul Lalli

 

[Jürgen Exner]

I need to find all the subdirectories in a directory. I know how to
get the content of the directory but I don't know how I can identify
directories

perldoc -f -d

jue

 

[Mladen Gogala]

A newbie question:

I need to find all the subdirectories in a directory. I know how to
get the content of the directory but I don't know how I can identify
directories and for that matter any other kind of files under the same
directory.

I can I do that?

You use a trick:

find2perl $HOME -type d -print

That will produce the subroutine that you can use.