finding directories within a particular directory

finding directories within a particular directory

[Karthik Vishwanath]

Hi all,

I have been trying to come up with a way of getting find to give me a list 
of all directories within a specific directory, without including the 
parent in the list. I do not seem to be able to achieve it.

For instance, my directory tree has the following structure:
.
`-- Patient1
     |-- 02-03-2009
     `-- 02-10-2009

I want find to only match 02-03-2009 and 02-10-2009. However, the 
following command gives:

$ find Patient1 -type d
Patient1/
Patient1/02-03-2009
Patient1/02-10-2009

How do I stop matching the parent directory - "Patient1", in this case?

Of course, I could pipe this output through sed/grep to get what I 
need, but I am curious if I can do it using find alone. All help is 
appreciated.


Thanks,

-K

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Re: finding directories within a particular directory

[Flemming Greve Skovengaard]

Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been trying to come up with a way of getting find to give me a 
> list of all directories within a specific directory, without including 
> the parent in the list. I do not seem to be able to achieve it.
> 
> For instance, my directory tree has the following structure:
> .
> `-- Patient1
>     |-- 02-03-2009
>     `-- 02-10-2009
> 
> I want find to only match 02-03-2009 and 02-10-2009. However, the 
> following command gives:
> 
> $ find Patient1 -type d
> Patient1/
> Patient1/02-03-2009
> Patient1/02-10-2009
> 
> How do I stop matching the parent directory - "Patient1", in this case?
> 
> Of course, I could pipe this output through sed/grep to get what I need, 
> but I am curious if I can do it using find alone. All help is appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -K
> 

Hello.

$ find Patient1 -type d -printf %P\\n

Remove the '\\n' if you don't want a newline printed after each line.

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