[X-Unix] Finding Parent Directory of Searched-For File

[Eric F Crist]

On May 5, 2009, at 7:51 AM, David Ledger wrote:

> At 12:53 -0700 4/5/09, Wing Wong wrote:
> Hmm... instead of ls, have you considered using 'find'?
>
> To get a similar output to what you have(ls -l information):
> find . -ls | grep "Bookmarks.plist"
>
> To just get the files, without the "ls -l " info:
> find . | grep "Bookmarks.plist"
>
> If you want to get the full path:
> find `pwd` -ls | grep "Bookmarks.plist"
> or
> find `pwd` | grep "Bookmarks.plist"
>
> Using the full arguments to 'find' as indicated by others is the  
> preferred way to do it. The above will work, but it's not good to  
> get into the habit of using such inefficient code.


I'm sorry if this comes across as rude, but using grep to parse the  
output of find is retarded.

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Eric Crist