getting the path of the file

rakesh.tandur · 05-09-2008, 02:11 PM

Hello,

What is the command to get the folder path of the file.

If i use the below command, it list the folder path with the filename, but we need only the folder path not the file name in it.

find . -name 'FileName'

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Regards
-Rakesh.

jlliagre · 05-09-2008, 02:28 PM

Try that:

Code:

dirname $(find . -name 'FileName')

forrestt · 05-09-2008, 02:37 PM

If that doesn't work try:

Code:

dirname `find . -name 'FileName'`

HTH

Forrest

rakesh.tandur · 05-09-2008, 02:47 PM

Forest,

They are not working.
saying extra operand `path of the file ` error

Kenhelm · 05-09-2008, 06:01 PM

If you have spaces in the path try:

Code:

dirname "$(find . -name 'FileName')"

(This fails if 'find' returns more than one file.)

osor · 05-09-2008, 06:58 PM

Or, with GNU find,

Code:

find . -name 'FileName' -printf '%h\n'

jlliagre · 05-10-2008, 01:37 AM

Or, with any find,

Code:

find . -name 'FileName' -exec dirname {} \;