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Hi!
I would like to funnel a series of directories and subdirectories into a text file. This is the output I would like to see from a find command:

/mypath/ABC_01/VISIT_01
/mypath/ABC_01/VISIT_02
/mypath/ABC_01/VISIT_03
/mypath/ABC_02/VISIT_01
/mypath/ABC_03/VISIT_01

I've tried:

Code:

find ./ -type d -name "ABC_*/VISIT_*" > dirlist

but I get the following warning:

find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though pathnames do). That means that '-name ABC_*/VISIT_*' will probably evaluate to false all the time on this system. You might find the '-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps '-samefile'. Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you could use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ ABC_*/VISIT_*'.

Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!

here is one way:

Code:

find /mypath/ABC_0* -type d -name 'VISIT*'

This makes assumptions - like there are no ABC_1* directories.

That worked perfectly, thank you! There are ABC_1* dirs, but I just moved the asterisk, it was fine:

Code:

find /mypath/ABC_* -type d -name 'VISIT*'

Thanks again.