[SOLVED] How To grep only directory

rabir · 04-29-2012, 07:27 AM

Hi Everyone.

i am newbie at Linux n trying to find out a file in which directory. as
find / -name abir* but
results shows as
/root/Desktop/abir/abir.sh
/root/Desktop/abir/abir.txt

but i need only directory as
/root/Desktop/abir/

Thanks in Advance for Help.

catkin · 04-29-2012, 07:28 AM

Use find's -d option.

rabir · 04-29-2012, 07:33 AM

not working find's -d

rabir · 04-29-2012, 07:36 AM

i am using Red hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

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catkin · 04-29-2012, 07:38 AM

Sorry, should be -type d

rabir · 04-29-2012, 07:42 AM

so the full command should be
find / -name -type d abir* or
find / -type d abir*

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catkin · 04-29-2012, 07:50 AM

Code:

find / -type d -name 'abir*'

The single quotes avoid abir* being changed by the shell file name expansion

rabir · 04-29-2012, 07:57 AM

still not working
i try it as
find / -type d -name 'abir*' &
find / -type d -name "abir*" &
find / -type d -name abir* &&
find / -name abir* -type d

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rabir · 04-29-2012, 08:06 AM

is there any option that extract only directory as

v1=/root/Desktop/abir/abir.txt

from that variable i can take only the part of

v2=/root/Desktop/abir/

thanks 4 help

catkin · 04-29-2012, 08:19 AM

If directory /root/Desktop/abir exists and is reachable by the user (does ls -d /root/Desktop/abir work?) then find / -type d -name 'abir*' should work.

If it does not work, is there any output?

What is the output of type find ?

rabir · 04-29-2012, 08:33 AM

i usually work as root. so no problem to reach any directory.

i also make some practice on your command as
if any name in the directory as "abir" then it works as

/root/Desktop/abir

but
if the directory is /root/Desktop/rabir/abir.txt

then your command is not working .

but i need only the directory that the file stay in ?

thanks for response

grail · 04-29-2012, 09:18 AM

I think you are saying that you wish to search for files containing abir but return the directory they reside in. Is this correct?

Assuming yes, try this:

Code:

find / -type f -name 'abir*' -printf "%h\n" | uniq

I put the uniq in as your examples show that there might be more than one abir file in a directory and every occurrence will return the directory name.
Take it off if this is not the case.

rabir · 04-29-2012, 11:31 AM

it works.

Thanks

grail · 04-29-2012, 12:32 PM

No problem. Please mark as SOLVED once you have a solution.