Dear All,
I have to find all subdirectory which name starts with substring log
I tried

but it returns only directories with a name starting with "logg"
I need to find directories like these:

/dir1/dir2/gh/jh/log12/hgjds/hjsa/loger/...
or
/dir1/dir2/nmdsf/hjadfs/logger/hjdahjsh/logkj/...
and so on
Thanks

Forget this post, wrong answer.

Try this

find <root> -name "*.logg*"

Does this find/grep work okay for you? Or if not, then perhaps you can provide some more examples of the lines that you want grep to match/reject. But looking at your grep above, I'm not sure I understand your purpose yet. The single quotes around 'log' are redundant, they do nothing much. The "{2}" applies only to the "g" character that precedes it. Whereas with a regexp like then it will match any line with "loglog" in it instead.

The whole concept behind find is that it provides advanced options for locating files. There should rarely be any need to parse the output with grep or another tool.

Here are a couple of good links about using find:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Find.html

As mentioned before, it would help if you detailed your requirements more thoroughly, but I imagine something like this would work:

The -path option lets you match the entire path of the file, not just the name. The slash in the globbing pattern ensures that only directory names that start with "log" are printed. Finally, it's usually advisable to get in the habit of explicitly adding the -print action, even though it is the default action if nothing is given. There are some advanced search cases where it's needed. See the last section of the first link.

(
Edit: After reading more closely, it looks like you want to match paths that have two instances of "log" in them? In that case, just double the globbing pattern to:
)

Finally, if you are going to use this list in a loop or similar command, be sure to use the -print0 option instead.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020