I'm facing some problems in ksh93, when going through directories recursively.

create some files and directories.

```
base=/tmp/nonsens

for i in {1..3}
do
    mkdir -p ${base}/dir${i}
    for j in {1..2}
    do
        mkdir ${base}/dir${i}/dir${j}
        touch ${base}/dir${i}/dir${j}/file${j}
        touch ${base}/dir${i}/file${j}
    done
done

```

Now going through it with a ksh93 script.

```
rdir ()
{
    typeset dir=$1

    for file in `ls $dir`
    do
        if [ -d $dir/$file ]
        then
            echo "Directory: $dir/$file"
            rdir $dir/$file
        else
            echo "File     : $dir/$file"
        fi
    done
}   

rdir /tmp/nonsens

```

will create this output in ksh93

```
cheko@chwiclu1:~> rdir /tmp/nonsens
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir1
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/file1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/dir2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/file1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/file2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/dir2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/dir3

```

while using pdksh/bash will create this

```
cheko@redcube:~$ rdir /tmp/nonsens
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir1
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir1/file1
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/dir2/file2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/file1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir1/file2
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir2
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir2/dir1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir2/dir1/file1
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir2/dir2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir2/dir2/file2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir2/file1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir2/file2
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir3
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir3/dir1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir3/dir1/file1
Directory: /tmp/nonsens/dir3/dir2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir3/dir2/file2
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir3/file1
File     : /tmp/nonsens/dir3/file2

```

Does someone know a workaround? Or does a switch exists that makes ksh93 behave as it should?