determine the greatest depth of subdirectories in a hierarchy

[Database Administrator]

On Oct 31, 1:47*am, Laurianne Gardeux wrote:
> Le Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:35:29 -0700, luxor1275bc a écrit*:
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> > On Oct 30, 3:02*pm, Janis Papanagnou
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> >> Laurianne Gardeux wrote:
> >> > Le Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:57:25 -0700, luxor1275bc a écrit :
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> >> >>If do a 'find . -type d',
> >> >>how can I determine the greatest depth of all the subdirectories in
> >> >>that hierarchy?
Another solution (I don't know how portable is it):
find . -type d -printf "%d\n" | sort -n | tail -1