to make a script or is there a command for this??

alpha883 · 05-09-2009, 08:53 AM

I am executing the find command to find, for example "eclipse" and it's listed in 4 of my directories. The eclipse binary is only in the second directory listed.

Out of the 4 directories I want to cd into the second directory from either a script or a short command line.

I can do "ls $(find . -name eclipse -print)" to ls the contents of the 4 directories but I'm not sure if I can iterate a for loop 4 times through a pipe and just cd $2?

Is this possible?

Thanks

repo · 05-09-2009, 09:33 AM

why don't you use "which" to find the binary?

Code:

which eclipse

jan61 · 05-09-2009, 09:45 AM

Moin,

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

why don't you use "which" to find the binary?

Code:

which eclipse

and to cd into the directory:

Code:

which eclipse && cd `dirname \`which eclipse\``

This works only if eclipse is installed in a path listed in $PATH.

If not (like in my installation too) you can use GNU find:

Code:

cd `find . -name eclipse -type f -printf "%h"`

or any find:

Code:

cd `dirname \`find . -name eclipse -type f -print\``

Jan