Pádraig Brady wrote: > Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > 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
Also if using GNU find can use GNU find's -printf operand and %h to print the directory of the matching item. Not portable to non-gnu systems. find . -name xyz.dat -printf "%h\n" Can generate null terminated string output for further xargs -0 use. find . -name xyz.dat -printf "%h\0" | xargs -0 ...otherstuff... Bob
