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Or something like:

Code:

find /one/[tf][wo]* -name file1.txt

Find has to "go down each directory" to find things.

We need to pre-process the directory list and look only at directories which are called "three" AND are at the bottom of a directory tree. The issue arises with "find" processing intermediate directories:

Code:

/one
/one/three                 We don't want to search this one.
/one/three/two           Or this one

I have a convoluted method to find the bottom of the tree which counts the number of directories in each directory. If there are only two directories you are at the bottom of the tree. I won't post that because there has to be a better way!

Simples one I can think of, based on the example:

Code:

find one -type d -name three -exec ls {}/file1.txt \; 2>/dev/null

This is an improvement but it will find a file "file1.txt" in "/one/three" when there is a subdirectory "/one/three/two".

Does the directory have to start with one, and end with three?

Code:

find /one/*/three -maxdepth 1 -name file1.txt

The o/p said what he wants, but not what he doesn't want (apart from not using grep)!

Hi scottn. My interpretation of the original post is that the tree has to end in ".../three/file1.txt" with no subdirectories under ".../three/".
I don't think we know what version of "find".
Also the example given is not the requirement:

Unfortunately this is not portable. Maxdepth is not universal.

Judging by the examples posted if the directory is "three" and contains the file that's it, there was no maximum depth criteria set.