List all folders containg headers

[KIA]aze · 04-17-2007, 03:29 AM

How can I list all folders containing headers (*.h)?
I would like to list each folder only once.

druuna · 04-17-2007, 04:08 AM

Hi,

This should work:

find . -name "*.h" -exec dirname {} \; | sort -u

Hope this helps.

jschiwal · 04-17-2007, 04:36 AM

If you are looking for files indexed by updatedb, you could also use locate:
locate --regex '.*\.h$' | sed 's#$.*$/[^/]*#\1#' | uniq

[KIA]aze · 04-17-2007, 05:55 AM

Thank you very much.

Now I even learned a lot of new stuff in only 2 command lines:
-exec
dirname
sort -u
--regex
uniq