I am a file in the land of dirs and I want to dive ...

I am a file in the land of dirs and I want to dive ...

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

sorry for the nonsense in the subject line.... ;)

I want to crc all the files of my harddisc.

I tried as root

    cd /
    zargs -- *(/) -- whirlpooldeep > /tmp/allfiles.crc.txt

which gaves me:

    zsh: no matches found: *(.)

OK...then recursively:

    cd /
    zargs -- *(/) -- whirlpooldeep > /tmp/allfiles.crc.txt

which gaves me:

    zsh: no matches found: **(.)


Interestingly both works when doing

    cd /tmp

instead of

    cd /

My / only contains directories, my /tmp contains directories and
files.

Why is it possible to dive into directories only if there are files
on the same level ???

Best regards and have a nice weekend!
mcc

Re: I am a file in the land of dirs and I want to dive ...

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jul 16,  8:04pm, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
}
} sorry for the nonsense in the subject line.... ;)

The nonsense in the message body is much more in need of apology. :-)

} I tried as root
} 
}     cd /
}     zargs -- *(/) -- whirlpooldeep > /tmp/allfiles.crc.txt
} 
} OK...then recursively:
} 
}     cd /
}     zargs -- *(/) -- whirlpooldeep > /tmp/allfiles.crc.txt

These two examples look exactly the same, and in neither case do you
show or even explain what "whirlpooldeep" is, so it's pretty difficult
to help you out.

One question is why you're using a pattern that matches directories
when what you are seeking is files?
 
} which gaves me:
} 
}     zsh: no matches found: **(.)

That, however, is an obviously useless pattern.  "**" only makes sense
when immediately followed by "/".  Somewhere you should be using **/*(.)
but I can't guess where.

E.g.:

    zargs -- /**/*(.) -- md5sum > /tmp/allfiles.md5.txt

Replace md5sum with whatever does your CRC.  Or if **/*(.) is too much
for zsh to handle,

    find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/allfiles.md5.txt