You can use find command or recursdir command to recurse through local or remote directories to command/find files or create tar files.

recursdir command pass a C script to recursively perform operations on files. recursdir is an excellent tool for automatic stuff. It provides C style programming functions and statements such as:

• strncmp()
• exec()
• system()
• strstr()
• strcat()
• printf()
• popen()
• if ( expr ) { take-action }
• if ( expr ) { take-action } else { do-something-else; }
• /* comments */
• Detecting file types and macros
• All of the logical, arithmetic and bitwise C operators are supported. These are ( ) >= < = > < != == && || ! - + * / % & ^ and have the same meanings and precedences as in C. etc.

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