sort files by depth (bash)

Question

Is there a way in bash to sort my files from a directory down in depth order, for example first print the files in the present directory, then the files in the sub directory

Answer 1

use a function to recursively traverse the filesystem

test.sh:

#!/bin/bash

function traverse() {
    find $1 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -type d -exec echo "$2"{} \; 
    for d in $(find $1 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".")
    do
        # if you just need files comment out next line
        echo "$2$d"
        traverse "$d" "${2}  "
    done
}

traverse $1

usage:
./test.sh dir
gives output:

./test.sh
./testA
  ./testA/dat2
  ./testA/dat1
  ./testA/testB
    ./testA/testB/dat4
./testC
  ./testC/dat3