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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Don Levey wrote:

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> Gregory Boyce wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Don Levey wrote:
>>
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>>> What I'm trying to do seems like it should be simple, but I can't find
>>> the solution.  I have a directory hierarchy; ideally what I want to do
>>> is to get a full directory path listing for each file of a particular
>>> type (in this case, *.xml).
>>>
>>> My first try was the following:
>>>
>>>     <FILEPATH>/*/*/*.xml
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried using find instead of ls?
>>
>> find /PATH -name *.xml
>
> I'm trying that now.  I need to discuss with one of our other folks
> whether it will be a problem to grab any of the .xml files from
> directories other than "three deep" from the base.
>
> Thanks!
> -Don

If it does, then this should work:

find <FILEPATH>/*/* -name *.xml






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