Merge and compile SCSS files recursively using shell script in Windows - node.js

Question

So here's the situation. I currently have project with the following folder structure:
-- public_html
-- assets
-- scss (contains SCSS files, which can be located inside subfolders)
-- scripts
-- vendor
-- plugins (Also contain some SCSS files from the)
-- css
-- also some other folders (no scss or css here though)
-- dist (distribution folder)
-- other folders too for html, php etc...
When I want to upload the script to my remote server, I firstly process the complete folder structure in public_html to the dist. I do this with a build script, build.sh, which you can see here:
function prepareForBuild(){
echo "Updating dependencies...";
bower install
echo "Preparing 'dist' directory...";
mkdir -p dist
rm -rf dist/*
# for the stackoverflow markup... */
}
function buildApp(){
cd assets
echo "Creating temp directory..."
mkDir -p temp
## MERGING TAKES (OR SHOULD) PLACE HERE
find "/" -name '*.scss' -exec cat {} \; > merge.scss
cd ../
pause
# requirejs optimization
echo "Optimizing files...";
node r.js -o build/build.js
}
function cleanup(){
echo "Cleaning up unnecessary files...";
cd dist
rm -f bower.json .gitignore .bowerrc README.md .DS_Store config.rb
rm -f build.sh build.txt composer.json composer.lock
rm -rf build dist scss .git .sass-cache .idea
}
function pause(){
read -p "$*"
}
prepareForBuild
buildApp && cleanup
echo "Building finished!";
Problem:
However, when I run the script in the Git bash terminal it breaks at this line:
find "/" -name '*.scss' -exec cat {} \; > merge.scss
Edit: "/" or "\" does not seem to affect the problem :(
Also, run from root (public_html) directory:
where it returns in the normal command prompt "File not found - *.scss" (and outputs an empty merge.scss file) and simply stops working in the Git bash terminal.
I based this line on this answer, but I can't get it to work for me. I also tried something like this instead but this only returns more errors.
What am I missing here?
EDIT!
I thought the bash shell simply stopped working but it seems that was not the case. After a while it returns this:
What does this mean? Is the reference folder incorrect?
Objective:
As said I would like to recursively scan the assets folder for .scss files and merge them into one default.scss.
If this is too much to ask another solution integrated with require.js (or simply with node) would also be possible, as you can see in my script I already use require.js for standard optimization.
Thanks for your time and patience!

Answer 1

If you want to scan for files under the assets directory, then do not specify the root directory in the find command. Omitting directories might also be a good idea.
find . -name "*.scss" -not -type d -exec cat {} \; > merge.scss
In the chance the you are wanting the merge.scss file to be created in the newly created temp directory, you need to make it the current directory. Then you can do the file scan from the parent, assets, directory.
function buildApp(){
cd assets
echo "Creating temp directory..."
mkDir -p temp
## MERGING TAKES (OR SHOULD) PLACE HERE
cd temp
find .. -name '*.scss' -not -type d -exec cat {} \; > merge.scss
cd ../
pause
# requirejs optimization
echo "Optimizing files...";
node r.js -o build/build.js
}
Also, does a pause command work for you in the bash shell? That is a Windows command unless you have something else.

Answer 2

Your -exec option misses the {} special element, meaning the file matching each find iteration. In addition, you can't definitively use '\' as a root path, at least it would be '/'.
Nevertheless, ideally you should use a specific sub-path for better efficiencies, and for permissions access reasons (I guess your use may not have permission to access all sub path from the root path?).
At least, you can update your instruction to:
find '/' -type f -name "*.scss" -exec cat {} \; > merge.scss