The obvious ls -dR does not work. I am currently using find /path/ -type d -ls but the output is not what I need (plain listing of sub-folders) Is there a way out?

Recursively iterating through files in a directory can easily be done by: find . -type f -exec bar {} \\; However, the above does not work for more complex things, where a lot of conditional branch...

Aug 7, 2012 · Recursive means that cp copies the contents of directories, and if a directory has subdirectories they are copied (recursively) too. Without -R, the cp command skips directories. …

Feb 21, 2025 · I keep hearing people talk about "recursion" for example, when you copy and paste a file and a directory you need to also put in the -r flag to tell the cp command …

Mar 3, 2015 · -r, --recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line. This is equivalent to the -d recurse option. -R, - …

In bash all I know is that rmdir directoryname will remove the directory but only if it's empty. Is there a way to force remove subdirectories?

sftp, like cp and scp, requires that when you copy a folder (and its contents, obviously), you have to explicitly tell it you want to transfer the folder recursively with the -r option. So, add -r to the …

Alternatively, zip also has a -r (recursive) option to do entire directory trees at once (and not have to worry about the dotfile problem): zip -r myfiles.zip mydir where mydir is the directory …

setfacl has a recursive option (-R) just like chmod: -R, --recursive Apply operations to all files and directories recursively. This option cannot be mixed with `--restore'. it also allows for the use of …

Early history: rm had a recursive option before the others. It was -r. Then cp gained a matching -r. Then ls wanted to have a recursive option, but ls -r already meant "reverse sort" so it had to be …