find with UVfile

tostay2003 · 07-22-2008, 04:03 PM

Hi,

I am trying to find a file and execute command UVfile on it, using the below command (currently on root directory)

Code:

 find . -exec UVfile {} \;

I thought that find traverses in sub-directories as well. But the above statment is just checking in the root directory and not the sub-directories. I tried the man find. But didn't find any option which says traverse through sub-directories.

Did I miss anything.

matthewg42 · 07-22-2008, 04:28 PM

find does search sub-directories unless you prevent it with the option "-maxdepth 1".

There are a couple of possibilities why this might not be happening:

maybe there are no sub-directories in the working directory when you execute the command. You specified "." as the root of the search. If you want the root directory on the whole filesystem, do:
Code:
```
find / -exec UVfile {} \;
```
find might be aliased to something else. If you are using bash as your shell, the command:
Code:
```
type find
```
will tell you exactly what find is.
find does not follow symbolic links by default. If all the sub-directories are actually symlinks, use the -follow option.
Unless you want to pass all directories too, you should specify that you only want files, like this
Code:
```
find / -type f -exec UVfile {} \;
```