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I'm no linux guru so any help would be greatly appreciated!

I need to output all folders that do not contain a file of a certain extension.

Currently I have the following

find / ! -name '*.txt' -printf %h\\n

This doesn't work because although it finds folders that do not contain *.txt, it outputs the folder for all other files that do not match *.txt

This is obviously not what I'm after.

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks,

If I understand:
you want directories (not folders in unix) that do not contain files of the form [somename].txt

Do subdirectories count for this as well?

Thanks for the reply Jim,

Correct.
The find command I listed was just an example.

I have a number of subdirectories within a folder called /vmfs/volumes/
There are an expected list of files within each of the subdirectories.

If one of these subdirectories is missing a file with the extension .vmx I will know it has either become corrupt or has not been deleted properly.

If I could output these subdirectories that no longer have a .vmx file I would be able track each down and deal with them.

Thanks again for the reply!

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Managed to google my way to victory.

find /vmfs/volumes/v02tstn02a01/ -type d | while read dir; do if [ ! -f $dir/*.vmx ]; then echo $dir; fi; done;