Recursively select file in mac - need to prettier all files in directory

Question

I am following this medium post .

Running the command prettier --write ./src/**/*.{js,jsx,scss} works perfectly fine on windows machine.

However, when using Mac machine, this command doesn't go recursively on files that present on sub-folders.

What is the difference between windows and mac on this?

Answer 1

You could use find with -exec, like so

find src -iname \*.js -or -iname \*.jsx -exec prettier --write {} \;

The arguments:

• src: the directory (be careful to not run on .git, node_modules, etc
• -iname: case insensitive name
• -or: or, to chain options together, in this case iname
• -exec: execute the following command for every item found. It replaces {} with the item found. Exec needs \\; at the end to know when your command is over.

Before you execute it, you could prepend echo to preview what commands will be running, like so

find src -iname \*.js -or -iname \*.jsx -exec echo prettier --write {} \;