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

[Mark K. Kim]

Use `dirname`.  Example:

  find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
  do
     dir=3D`dirname $i`

     echo $dir
  done

The complementing command is `basename`.  `basename` also has some other
interesting features, such as stripping out the file extension.  See the
manpage.

-Mark


On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Richard Crawford wrote:

> Suppose I have a short script as such:
>
> find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
> do
>   print $i
> done
>
> how can I pass the name of the directory where $i lurks to another
> variable, such as $dir?
>
>
>
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