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Old 10-16-2013
Find every directory named XYZ under the DVLP directory

I only want to find files under each branch of the directory tree inside directories named XYZ and there are multiple XYZ directories?
# 2  
Old 10-16-2013
Code:
find DVLP -type d -name "XYZ"

EDIT: Actually, do you want the directories, or the files in the directories? Your post title & post content say different things...
# 3  
Old 10-16-2013
I want the file names please?

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Sorry about that!

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would it be ?
Code:
find DVLP -type f -name "XYZ"

# 4  
Old 10-16-2013
Try:
Code:
find DVLP -type d -name XYZ -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f

EDIT:
find DVLP -type f -name "XYZ"
would get you files named XYZ. I think what you want is the files named anything which are inside directories XYZ?
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Old 10-16-2013
Yes correct! Thanks!

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Which code is correct? What does that xargs part do?

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So to find all of the xml files under there it would be?
Code:
find DVLP -type f -name "XYZ/*.xml"

# 6  
Old 10-16-2013
find DVLP -type d -name XYZ -print0 finds directories under DVLP which are called XYZ. -print0 outputs them NUL-terminated, which is just a precaution in case any directory names have whitespace in them.

find <path> -maxdepth 1 -type f finds files directly under <path> (i.e. it doesn't check subdirectories of <path>)

xargs passes its input as arguments to the command specified. By default it separates its input using whitespace, but -0 overrides that to use NUL. Also by default, the arguments are supplied as the last parameter to the command, but by using -I<replace string> it will pass them wherever <replace string> is in the command.

In this case, I'm using -I{}, so xargs passes its input (the list from the directory find) to the files find as the path to start from.


EDIT:
Quote:
Originally Posted by emc^24sho
So to find all of the xml files under there it would be?
Code:
find DVLP -type f -name "XYZ/*.xml"

No - that would find files which actually contain / in the filename itself (which is highly unlikely for Unix).

If you wanted all xml files under DVLP you could do:
Code:
find DVLP -type f -name "*.xml"

If you only want xml files which are in directories called XYZ which are under DVLP then you could do:
Code:
find DVLP -type d -name XYZ -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.xml"

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Old 10-16-2013
I want to find every xml file in XYZ directories under DVLP.

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Then I could use another
Code:
 | xargs to grep -l "Status"

to get all of the xml files of that contain "Status"?
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