Creating empty file in all subfolders

Question

I need to extract an archive and create a empty file in each of the folders contained within the archive.

I tried this:

for folder in `ls -d1 */` ; do touch "${folder}/COMPLETE"; done;

works just perfect till someone creates a folder with a space in its name.

How can I do this for all folders with or without spaces in their names?

\Hugo

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '11 at 16:47

14

You can use find instead:

find . -type d -exec touch {}/COMPLETE \;

answered Feb 08 '11 at 16:47

dogbane

replaced . with * as I don't need a COMPLETE file in main directory. Thanks a lot! :) – Hugo Feb 09 '11 at 08:48

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 16:59

6

don't parse ls with for loop

for folder in */
do
  touch "$folder/COMPLETE"
done

answered Feb 08 '11 at 16:59

kurumi

2 Answers2