How to list all the folders that have a subfolder with a specific name inside them using CLI Bash

George G.

11/11/23, 1:23 AM

I would like to use cli to list all the folders in my Documents directory that have a subfolder called "images" is there any way to list them easily?

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steeldriver

11/11/23, 1:48 AM

Using GNU find:

find ~/Documents/ -type d -name images -printf '%h\n'

From the -printf section of man find:

          %h     Leading directories of file's name (all but the last ele‐
                 ment).  If the file name contains no slashes (since it is
                 in the current directory) the  %h  specifier  expands  to
                 `.'.

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