Re: Directory level Depth check - Shell script

On 2008-01-29, Meendar wrote:

Anybody know how to compare the directory depth level of two
directories, whether their depth level are same or not through shell
script. (also depth level for each sub-directory )

path=/absolute/path/to/directory
IFS=/
set -f
set -- $path
depth=$#

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