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I have little confused with find command.

i used the find command. but not getting th expected result.

see i am currently in the directory dir1.
and i have some directories inside teh dir1

like,

dir1/dir11
dir1/dir12/dir121
dir1.dir13/dir131/dir1311 etc,

if i have to search for a file with the criteria "*note*"
the find command should give me the details like,

dir1/dir11/testnote.txt
dir1/dir13/dir131/dir1311/testnote1.txt

if those paths contain the files.

can any one please give the command?

Thanks,
- Rashmy

Hi,

Try this

if u r in directory dir1,

Code:

find . -name "*note*" -type f -print

print is the default action. simply u can give ..

Code:

find . -name "*note*" -type f

Thanks
Penchal

yeah! thank you frnd.. this is the one i want.. Thank you!

hey frnd one more doubt!

how could i search for a file type?

say if i have 10 .txt files in a directory and if i search for that like,

Code:

find . -name "*.txt" -type f
./dir1/a1.txt
./dir1/a2.txt
./dir1/a3.txt
./dir2/b1.txt
cannot open :dir3

then i am getting all the txt files with path. but i just want the distinct paths and only the paths where the match found.

like,

Code:

./dir1
./dir2

can you help me with this pls?

Thanks,
- Rashmy

Hi rashmy,

try this

Code:

find . -name "*.txt" -type f  -exec dirname {} \; | sort -u

Thanks
Penchal

how ever i am getting something like

Code:

find: cannot open ./app/oracle/orasso

this also i do not want.

could you please tell me what the command"-exec dirname {} \;" is doing?

Thank you very much penchal.

Hi Rashmy,

find: cannot open ./app/oracle/orasso

These kind of errors u can get when u dont have enough permissions to parse a directory.

Try this

find . -name "*.txt" -type f -exec dirname {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -u


-exec command applies the command to the the output of find.
dirname gives the pathname excluding the filename.

Thanks
Penchal