tag 22128 notabug close 22128 stop On 09/12/15 17:31, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > I frequently need to extract the `dirname's from a list of files, > so dirname should have an option to take its input from a > file, e.g.: > > dirname -f <filename>
xargs dirname < filename > where <filename> could be "-" for stdin. > > E.g., to get a list of directories that contain a specific > file: > > find -name "xyz.dat" | dirname -f - find -name "xyz.dat" -print0 | xargs -r0 dirname > The same would be good for `basename' as well. xargs basename -a < filename thanks, Pádraig.
