How to find directory in directory?
Use GNU find
with -path
that searches the entire path for a match:
$ find . -path '*/c/e'
./a/c/e
That will match any file or directory called e
which is in a directory called c
.
Alternatively, if you don't have GNU find
or any other that supports -path
, you can do:
$ find . -type d -name c -exec find {} -name e \;
./a/c/e
The trick here is to first find all c/
directories and then search only in them for things called e
.
Since you have tagged Bash, an alternative is to use globstar:
shopt -s globstar # Sets globstar if not already set
# Print the matching directories
echo **/c/e/
# Or put all matching directories in an array
dirs=(**/c/e/)
In addition to @terdon 's solution, I provide here an alternative version for those without GNU find (that I only could find by following his idea!):
find . -type d -name 'c' -exec find '{}/e' -type d \( -name 'e' -ls -o -prune \) \; 2>/dev/null
This seems to work on my machine
To test:
# add files under each directories as otherwise some solutions would
# list also files under any "c/e" subdirs ...
# in a subdir : do :
mkdir -p a b c a/b a/c a/c/e a/c/d/e a/c/d/e/c/e/f/g
for i in $(find */ -type d -ls); do ( cd "$i" && touch a b c d e ) ; done
# this will creates several files under each subdirs, wherever it can (ie, when they don't match a subdir's name).
# then test:
find . -type d -name 'c' -exec find '{}/e' -type d \( -name 'e' -ls -o -prune \) \; 2>/dev/null
# and it answers only the 2 matching subdirs that match name "c/e":
inode1 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 uid gid 0 nov. 2 17:57 ./a/c/e
inode2 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 uid gid 0 nov. 2 18:02 ./a/c/d/e/c/e