Match all files under all nested directories with shell globbing

Question

Is there a way to use shell globbing to identify nested directories?

so if I have dir/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5/.. and I have files under all of them, what is the equival

Answer 1

There is no way to do this with vanilla Bash, however most commands accept a -R or --recursive option to tell them to descend into directories.

If you simply want to list all files located anywhere within a directory or its sub-directories, you can use find.

To recursively find files (-type f) with a given directory:

find  -type f