Using "ls" to list all html files recursively...

How to please ;-)

[Nick_W]

Hi all,

I have a directory with many sub-dirs.

I would like to ls all files ending in .html recursively.

I've tried

$> ls -R /path/to/dir/*.html

but it only lists from the parent dir not recursively through all the sub-dirs....

Any clues greatly appreciated ;)

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Also I'd like to count these files...
</added>

Nick

[PaulPaul]

I haven’t used UNIX for a while, but I believe I used the find command for that type of task.

[littleman]

There might be a cleaner way but this will work from the directory you want to recursively search in.
find . -name "*.html" ¦ grep -c .

added:
If you want a list of them you could do something like this:
find . -name "*.html" > temp.txt

[Nick_W]

What's the .-name bit?

I'm just getting a bunch of errors?

Nick

[littleman]

-name is telling find to look for files with that string in the name.
Make sure you have a space between the "." and -name.

[Nick_W]

Great, got it. thanks very much ;)

Didnt get ¦ grep -c to work though, I output it and then got a line count in vim...

Nick

[Duckula]

it wasn't

¦ grep -c

it was

¦ grep -c .

with the trailing dot.

And

¦ wc -l

would do the same thing

[Nick_W]

Ahhhhhh!

My eyes arn't the best ;)

Nick