what is the command for listing files/dirs recursively of specific directories

Question

suppose in my current directory, I have 50 sub-directories. Now, I am interested only in about 20 of those sub-directories (whose names match a pattern). I would like to recursively list the contents of these 20 sub-directories. How do I do that ?

I would like to do this in Solaris 10 and Linux(RHEL 5.x).

thank you,

Answer 1

You can use ls and find to accomplish this. Simply use find to get the directories and pass those into ls:

ls `find -type d -name my_dir`

If you need more verbose output, you can also use ls's options:

ls `find -type d -name my_dir` -al

Answer 2

Use tree. Just navigate to the directory you want to get the structure for, and type tree. For more see here. Use the -l and -r switches.

Answer 3

ls -R pattern, if you can express pattern as a shell glob.