finding directories and files

I understand that I can find directories with a specific pattern using:

find . -type d -name "tmp_*"

I understand that I can find files with a directory using:

find . -type f -name "tmp.conf"

How would I list all directories starting with tmp_ containing a file called tmp.conf and list the path to that file?

Thanks!

There are different ways to Rome. I probably would search specifically for files named tmp.conf files and have the full path printed for each occurrence, as in

find . -type f -name 'tmp.conf' -exec readlink -f {} \;

You could use

find . -path '*/tmp_*/tmp.conf'

or

find . -regex '.*/tmp_[^/]*/tmp\.conf'

The difference is that the first (which uses ordinary shell wildcards) will match things like ./dir/tmp_foo/subdir/tmp.conf because / is not treated specially by *. The second (which uses a regular expression) excludes intervening / characters explicitly.

If you want the path to the containing directory only (without the tmp.conf basename, you can use the find command's -printf with the %h specifier:

find . -path '*/tmp_*/tmp.conf' -printf '%h\n'

Alternatively you could do something like

find . -type d -name 'tmp_*' -execdir test -e {}/tmp.conf \; -print

or

find . -type d -name 'tmp_*' -exec sh -c '
  for f do [ -e "$f/tmp.conf" ] && echo "$f"; done
' find-sh {} +