How to recursively loop through files and add data derived from a certain file name in bash without using the find command?

Question

I am new to bash & awk and am trying to learn how to loop through a few directories and add data from files with a certain name.

Let's say we have the following directories:

/scoresA/.scores
/scoresB/.scores
/scoresB/score/.scores
/scoresC/scores.txt
/scoresD/

The file .scores has scores for each person in the following format:

Jacob 6
Joe 7
Kyle 9

I want to recurse through these directories, only files with the name .scores and add the score for a certain person.

Here is the bash code I wrote to recurse through the files.

function runCheck {
    FILE_NAME=".scores"
    CAND=$1
    START_DIR=$PWD
    
    shopt -s dotglob
    for file in "$START_DIR"/**/*
    do
        if [[ $file == *"${FILE_NAME}"* ]]
        then
            # awk script here
        fi
    done
}

When I run the function, runCheck, I want to add the score for a given person. So, when I run runCheck "Jacob" I want to check every .scores file that exists and add his score and print it out. I'm very new to bash and am just trying to learn more, but I was unable to successfully recurse through all the files and total it. If anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Answer 1

If you actually want to recurse, you have to actually do that.

my_find () {
    local dir=$1
    local pat=$2
    for file in "$dir"/*; do
        if [ -d "$file" ]; then
            my_find "$file" "$pat"
        elif [ "${file##*/}" = "$pat" ]; then
            echo "$file"
        fi
    done
}

Usage example:

my_find . .scores | xargs awk 1

to run awk 1 on all .scores files in the current directory . and its subdirectories.

For comparison, the same with find would look like

find . -type f -name .scores -exec awk 1 {} +