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by **argos..** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

Hi all,

How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

find / -name "*.cfm"
- will give me all the .cfm files.

find / -type d
- will give me all the directories on the system.

find / -name "*.cfm" -type d
- gives me nothing

I was thinking of cut, and looked at the man pages.
There wasn't anything to cut from the tail end of a string,
that I could see. If so, it could be delimited by "/".

Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
directories that contain the .cfm files?

Thanks,

Argosy

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by **argos..** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

How about in awk or sed?

Is there a way to find the last "/",
and then snag everything in front of it?

I've been looking at my reference pages,
but can't find anything.

> Hi all,

> How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of
files?

> find / -name "*.cfm"
> - will give me all the .cfm files.

> find / -type d
> - will give me all the directories on the system.

> find / -name "*.cfm" -type d
> - gives me nothing

> I was thinking of cut, and looked at the man pages.
> There wasn't anything to cut from the tail end of a string,
> that I could see. If so, it could be delimited by "/".

> Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
> directories that contain the .cfm files?

> Thanks,

> Argosy

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by **Barry Margoli** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

>How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

find / -name '*.cfm' | sed 's;/[^/]*$;;' | uniq

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by **Jason Sain** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

> Hi all,

> How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

> find / -name "*.cfm"
> - will give me all the .cfm files.

> find / -type d
> - will give me all the directories on the system.

> find / -name "*.cfm" -type d
> - gives me nothing

> I was thinking of cut, and looked at the man pages.
> There wasn't anything to cut from the tail end of a string,
> that I could see. If so, it could be delimited by "/".

> Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
> directories that contain the .cfm files?

> Thanks,

> Argosy

Perhaps not the most efficient way, but the following
script will do the trick.

-----------
#!/bin/sh

for i in `find / -type d`
do
if [ -f $i/*.cfm ]
then
echo $i
fi
done

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by **argos..** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

This saves me a LOT of time.

Thanks Barry!

> >How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of
files?

> find / -name '*.cfm' | sed 's;/[^/]*$;;' | uniq

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by **Deadhead A** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

Try something like this:

find / -name "*.cfm" -exec dirname {} \; | uniq

>Hi all,

>How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

>find / -name "*.cfm"
>- will give me all the .cfm files.

>find / -type d
>- will give me all the directories on the system.

>find / -name "*.cfm" -type d
>- gives me nothing

>I was thinking of cut, and looked at the man pages.
>There wasn't anything to cut from the tail end of a string,
>that I could see. If so, it could be delimited by "/".

>Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
>directories that contain the .cfm files?

>Thanks,

>Argosy

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by **John Hobso** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

>How about in awk or sed?

>Is there a way to find the last "/",
>and then snag everything in front of it?

You don't know about basename(1).

John Hobson

by **Randal L. Schwar** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

argosy22> Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
argosy22> directories that contain the .cfm files?

In two total processes (well, one, if you want to do it repeatedly):

## do this once
$ find2perl / -name '*.cfm' \
-eval '$seen{$File::Find::dir}++' \
-eval 'END { print map "$_\n", sort keys %seen }' >my_finder
## do this each time you want the list
$ ./my_finder >cfm_list

If you have Perl, you have find2perl. Even on Windows. :)

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by **Volker Borche** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

|> >How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

|> find / -name '*.cfm' | sed 's;/[^/]*$;;' | uniq

| xargs -n 1 dirname |

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by **kros..** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

> Hi all,

> How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

> find / -name "*.cfm"
> - will give me all the .cfm files.

> find / -type d
> - will give me all the directories on the system.

> find / -name "*.cfm" -type d
> - gives me nothing

> I was thinking of cut, and looked at the man pages.
> There wasn't anything to cut from the tail end of a string,
> that I could see. If so, it could be delimited by "/".

> Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
> directories that contain the .cfm files?

I have a feeling that there's a cleaner solution, but this should do the
trick: Caution! this may eliminate directories whose name matches *.cfm

#!/bin/sh
DIRS=/tmp/Dirs.$$
# Create an empty file
touch $DIRS
for file in `find $HOME -name "*.cfm" -print`
do
dirname $file >> $DIRS
done
sort $DIRS | uniq
rm $DIRS

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by **Mike Spoone** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

> > Hi all,

> > How can find just the directories, that contain certain types of files?

> > find / -name "*.cfm"
> > - will give me all the .cfm files.

> > find / -type d
> > - will give me all the directories on the system.

> > find / -name "*.cfm" -type d
> > - gives me nothing

> > I was thinking of cut, and looked at the man pages.
> > There wasn't anything to cut from the tail end of a string,
> > that I could see. If so, it could be delimited by "/".

> > Is there a way to combine some commands to get just the
> > directories that contain the .cfm files?

> I have a feeling that there's a cleaner solution, but this should do the
> trick: Caution! this may eliminate directories whose name matches *.cfm

> #!/bin/sh
> DIRS=/tmp/Dirs.$$
> # Create an empty file
> touch $DIRS
> for file in `find $HOME -name "*.cfm" -print`
> do
> dirname $file >> $DIRS
> done
> sort $DIRS | uniq
> rm $DIRS

There is a less messy way - use a pipeline:

find $HOME -name \*.cfm -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq

by **Matthew Land** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

> How about in awk or sed?

> Is there a way to find the last "/",
> and then snag everything in front of it?

> I've been looking at my reference pages,
> but can't find anything.

dirname (gives path)
basename (gives file)

$ dirname /path/to/file
/path/to
$ basename /path/to/file
file

- Matt

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by **Matthew Land** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

> There is a less messy way - use a pipeline:

> find $HOME -name \*.cfm -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq

All the "uniq" only solutions don't work right since the output is
not sorted. There could be multiple copies. Using sort then uniq
solves that, but sort itself can do it all at once. Get the
dirname OUTSIDE of the find and into an xargs and things might
speed up a bit.

find $HOME -name \*.cfm | xargs -I {} dirname {} | sort -u

- Matt

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by **Ken Pizzi** » Fri, 05 May 2000 04:00:00

Which spawns one "dirname" per matching file, instead of just
one sed script for the whole batch.

Both of these solutions have a bug, however. Consider what
happens if the output from the find command is:
/foo/bar/apple.cfm
/foo/bar/android/c3po.cfm
/foo/bar/nanook.cfm
This is easily fixed by using sort:
find / -name '*.cfm' -print | sed 's;/[^/]*$;;' | sort -u

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