Help Regarding Shell Scripting

[yugandhargv]

Hi all,
I want to know the how can i read the directories in shell script i.e to brief i want to write a shell script which automatically finds what are all the directories and files present in the directory which it runs and prints it.
Can any one let me know how can i do it. I also want to know which is the best book to learn shell scripting.

Regards
Yugandhar.

[Franklin52]

Try the find command.
Google for "manpage find examples".

To learn Bash scripting you can check these pdf files:

http://personal.riverusers.com/~theg.../abs-guide.pdf
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...ners-Guide.pdf

Regards

[tpl]

have you tried "ls -R" ?

[vsemaska]

If you want to do some work with directories/files within a script, look at the 'find' command. Here's an example of what's prossible, it lists the directories as a tree structure.

# find ./ -type d -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'

Vic