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

[Allen Taylor]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:36:31AM -0500, Allen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:13:46AM -0500, bob wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I think that the find will do this for you:
>    find [search criteria] -exec somecommand {}  \;  
> 
> Simple working example:
>     find -exec ls -l {} \;
> will list each file and directory under the current location.
> 
> As usual 'man find' or equiv.
> 
> [ It's been a while since I did a "ws" in QNX - long enough that I was
> booting from 5 1/4 disks!  ]

Of course I answered before noticing that two others had already
answered with better comments than mine! Then on top of it, I left out
the "-type d" *and* documented correctly as processing "each file and
directory" when the request was to process directories only. I'm going
to bed early tonight - obviously the brain has already shut down!

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