[vox-tech] Shell Scripting Question: Getting a directory name from a 'find' result

[Mike Simons]

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:54:58AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Suppose I have a short script as such:
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> find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
> do
>   print $i
> done
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> how can I pass the name of the directory where $i lurks to another
> variable, such as $dir?

find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | sed 's/\/\([^\/]*\)$/ \1/' |=20
  while read dir file; do
    echo "file =3D $file, directory =3D $dir"
  done

Richard,

  The more complex you make things the more you should look into doing
this with perl.

  Also "print" is not a portable shell command... use "echo" instead
when writing shell scripts.

    Hope this helps,
      Mike Simons

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