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recursively call bash script from any directory

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This snippet determines the path and script name that will need to be called, and then calls that script and passes it parameters.

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  1. #!/usr/bin/env bash
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  3. #this script calls for three variables to be passed to it, a directory, an indent amount, and a file for output. 
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  5. script_dir="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
  6. script_name=$(basename "$0")
  7. path_to_script=$script_dir/$script_name
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  9. new_indent="$indent    " #this increases the indent amount for the next recursion
  10. new_start_dir="$start_dir/$directoryname" #this sets the next directory
  11. $("$path_to_script" "$new_start_dir" "$new_indent" "$outfile") #this actually calls the same 
  12.                                                                #script with the updated parameters

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