Open all files in a directory and subdirectories using bash terminal command?

Question

I have an alias where I can do open file1.type file2.type or open *.type

What I want is to be able to use this on all subdirectories of my current location. So if I'm in the parent directory and there are two child directories, running the command will be the same as running open file1.type file2.type child1/file1.type child2/file1.type

So something like open -? *.type is what I'm looking for.

Answer 1

If running zsh or bash 4.x with the globstar option set, ** will match all directories recursively.

#!/bin/zsh
open **/*.type

...

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s globstar
open **/*.type

Answer 2

find works for this sort of functionality. Something like this:

find . -type f -name \*.type -exec open {} \;

Or in this case, since open is an alias, you have to run the shell as the command:

find . -type f -name \*.type -exec bash -c open {} \;