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Old 04-12-2012
Find directories without subdirectories

Hello,

I have to find all directories, which contain files, but dont have subdirectories.
For example if i have tree like:

Code:
├── kat11
│   ├── kat21
│   │   └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
│   └── kat22
│       ├── kat31
│       │   └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
│       └── kat32
│           └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
├── kat12
│   └── kat21
│       └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
├── kat13
│   └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
└── kat14
    └── Kat21
        └── Kat32
            └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy

In output should be like:
Code:
/kat11/kat21/
/kat11/kat22/kat31/
/kat11/kat22/kat32/
/kat12/kat21/
/kat13/
/kat14/kat21/kat32/

I have "tips" that i should use find, grep, which and locate commands.

Can sb help me with this? Smilie

~Valker
# 2  
Old 04-12-2012
How about parsing ls -lR?
# 3  
Old 04-13-2012
What Shell do you use?
# 4  
Old 04-13-2012
Shell: /bin/bash
# 5  
Old 04-13-2012
One idea is to look at each directory and count the number of directories in that directory. The deepest directory in a tree will only have two directories (. and ..) .
Code:
START_DIR="$1"
if [ "${START_DIR}""X" = "X" ]
then
        START_DIR="."
fi
#
find "${START_DIR}" -type d -print|sort|while read DIR
do
        DIR_COUNT=`ls -la "${DIR}"|grep \^d|wc -l`
        if [ ${DIR_COUNT} -eq 2 ]
        then
                FILE_COUNT=`ls -la "${DIR}"|grep \^\-|wc -l`
                if [ ${FILE_COUNT} -gt 0 ]
                then
                        echo "${DIR}"
                fi
        fi
done

I don't have the locate command and I can't see the relevance of the which command unless the idea is to create a special $PATH and use path searching commands like which to find what's in the tree.

Last edited by methyl; 04-13-2012 at 01:18 PM..
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Old 04-13-2012
Try:
Code:
ls -lR | awk -F: '!($0 ~ ORS "d") && $0 ORS ~ "-" {print $1}' RS=


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-13-2012 at 07:49 PM.. Reason: missing tilde
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Old 04-13-2012
@Scrutinizer
Does your ls -lR give the full path. I've never found a unix which did, but may be this is a Linux feature.
 
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