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Old 10-11-2011
Question Request for shell script for listing directories, subdirs containing specific files.
I'm looking for a script which outputs the list of directories and sub directories from root level consisting of specific files. For instance I want shell script to list all the directories and subdirectories containing .txt files.Smilie
# 2  
Old 10-11-2011
Try using find
Code:
man find         # for detail in find
find . -type f -name "*.txt"

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Old 10-11-2011
posix,

Thanks for the providing the command. Want I really want is shell script outputing just the directories and subdirectories and not list the files.
Code:
$ find . -type f -name '*sas7b*'
./employee.sas7bdat
./employee.sas7bndx
./employee1.sas7bdat
./sasuser.v91/regstry.sas7bitm
./test/employee.sas7bdat
./test/new1.sas7bvew

I'm looking for list like following
Code:
.
./test

. is my home directory
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-12-2011 at 03:32 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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Old 10-11-2011
Code:
find . -type f -name '*.txt' | nawk -F/ 'NF-- && $1=$1' OFS=/ | sort -u

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Old 10-11-2011
No luck
Code:
$ find . -type f -name '*sas7b*' | nawk -F/ 'NF-- && $1=$1' OFS=/ | sort -u
./employee.sas7bdat
./employee.sas7bndx
./employee1.sas7bdat
./sasuser.v91/regstry.sas7bitm
./test/employee.sas7bdat
./test/new1.sas7bvew

I'm looking for list of directories and sub directories
here output I'm looking for is
Code:
.
./test
./sasuser.v91

---------- Post updated at 01:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:05 PM ----------

Any other ideas?

---------- Post updated at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:46 PM ----------

Smilie
Quote:
Originally Posted by super210
No luck

$ find . -type f -name '*sas7b*' | nawk -F/ 'NF-- && $1=$1' OFS=/ | sort -u
./employee.sas7bdat
./employee.sas7bndx
./employee1.sas7bdat
./sasuser.v91/regstry.sas7bitm
./test/employee.sas7bdat
./test/new1.sas7bvew

I'm looking for list of directories and sub directories
here output I'm looking for is
.
./test
./sasuser.v91

---------- Post updated at 01:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:05 PM ----------

Any other ideas?
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-12-2011 at 03:32 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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