Linux equivalent to QNX's ws (walk directory structure) command?

[G. Matthew Rice]

bob <fcsoft-3Emkkp+1Olsmp8TqCH86vg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> QNX had a command which would walk down a directory structure executing a 
> command at each level.     They called it "ws".
> 
> Is there an equivalent in Linux?

Sure.  It's called find(1):

       find <somedir or 2> -type d (maybe -depth) 

and then pipe that to xargs(1) or use the -exec option with find.  I usually
prefer xargs(1).  Especially if there are a lot of matches.


> I did a quick look through my reference material and couldn't find it, so I
> thought I would ask before I set out to write my own.

It's very rare that I have to resort to writing my own programs.  Unix tools
generally are flexible enough to do what you want.  You may want to consider
grabbing a reference book like 'Linux in a Nutshell' and read over a lot of
the utilities that are available (or just start pouring over the section 1
man pages).

HTH,
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